Encryption using SSDs

[Jeff Golas]

Has anyone encrypted an SSD? I understand the common issues and I'm thinking an SSD is the only way to negate the performance hit of encryption. If that means the drive lasts 2-3 years instead of 5-10 years, and that tiny bits of possibly not-even-sensitive data is on the actual chip requiring someone to desolder and read the ram chip only to get some windows files, so be it.

In my case I'm using Truecrypt for now, but may look into a better commercial product like Safeboot, PGP, etc.

[Mark]

i have not, however one thought regarding performance was to put the OS on SSD and data on encrypted HD.  prob doesn't work well for a laptop though (two drives and all).

[Jeff Golas]

Thats actually how my own laptop is running - Intel 310 Pcie-x SSD (fits in pcie slot) and a standard sata disk for data...I did this becuase the SSD isn't that big and also to test-drive the config.

One major issue I found with Win 7, is redirecting My Docs and other libraries to an encrypted partition on the sata drive works, however anything that is set to store to the actual profile folders will still store there. Only way around it would be to delete those folders and make hard links, but if you do that, what happens if the encrypted drive isn't mounted when windows boots?

[Mark]

Interesting..