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Does encryption slow down the performance of DiskCrypt in comparison with normal, unencrypted hard disks?

April 26, 2017comparison diskcrypt encryption hard disks normal PERFORMANCE slow unencrypted

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Does encryption slow down the performance of DiskCrypt in comparison with normal, unencrypted hard disks?

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No. The real time encryption and decryption engine in DiskCrypt is faster than the data transfer speed of the IDE interface and thus does not incur any performance overheads.