TrueCrypt and performance? Does anyone use TrueCrypt or other whole hard drive encryption solutions? Work requires that we encrypt our laptop drives and I was wondering what the effect on performance would be. Thanks! TrueCrypt and performance? Does anyone use TrueCrypt or other whole hard drive encryption solutions? Work requires that we encrypt our laptop drives and I was wondering what the effect on... » Read More TrueCrypt and performance? Does anyone use TrueCrypt or other whole hard drive encryption solutions? Work requires that we encrypt our laptop drives and I was wondering what the effect on performance would be. Thanks! « Show Less
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Hi Jun,Yes I have... and erased it very quickly!Here's what happened. I installed the programme as instructed. It worked beautifully... until I tried to start up one day and my PC replied it had to do something as apparently I had switched it off incorrectly... Usually this is quite harmless and windows starts up without any problems... but you've guessed it: not when the system has been crypted. After having tried everything, I had to use the Rescuedisk I had made to decrypt my laptop... which took a cool 26 hours!So... I have been cured and removed TrueCrypt as soon as the laptop worked again! Hi Jun,Yes I have... and erased it very quickly!Here's what happened. I installed the programme as instructed. It worked beautifully... until I tried to start up one day and my PC replied it had to do something as apparently I had switched it off incorrectly... Usually this is quite harmless and windows starts up without any problems... but you've guessed it: not when the system has been crypted. After having tried everything, I had to use the Rescuedisk I had made to decrypt my laptop... which took a cool 26 hours!So... I have been cured and removed TrueCrypt as... » Read More Hi Jun,Yes I have... and erased it very quickly!Here's what happened. I installed the programme as instructed. It worked beautifully... until I tried to start up one day and my PC replied it had to do something as apparently I had switched it off incorrectly... Usually this is quite harmless and windows starts up without any problems... but you've guessed it: not when the system has been crypted. After having tried everything, I had to use the Rescuedisk I had made to decrypt my laptop... which took a cool 26 hours!So... I have been cured and removed TrueCrypt as soon as the laptop worked again! « Show Less
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I have full drive encryption on mine using TrueCrypt and have no problems at all. Just don't try to flash the drives firmware from inside Windows, because it will fail and you will damage your master boot record. It was easily fixable with the TrueCrypt rescue disk, but it was scary at first. When you want to flash the firmware on the drive, select the option to create a bootable CD.
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Of course it is indeed marketing hype, but for most purposes the comparison is valid. In terms of operational performance, the drive does indeed perform as well as most SSDs. The cache is used only to speed access to (generally) most-recently-used sectors, such as the file directory. For large-volume file access, such as boot-up or backup/restore, you won't get anything but regular magnetic disk performance. If you really want SSD performance with large storage capacity, you'll have to spend a lot more money!
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I use mine to back up Time Machine on a daily basis. It operates in the background and I never know if its slow or not. Not a problem for me.
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for everyone this data will be of interest: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/these are big samples, 2014 data, and the models of HGST 4TB drives are outperforming others in terms of reliability as well as price/perf
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5400 is actually better (or at the very least, no worse) than 7200 for large files since the heads spend less time bouncing around the platters trying to find your data. Also once you RAID these, which is what they're designed for, they'll be plenty fast enough that you won't think twice about how fast they spin.
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I encrypted mine. You need to set it up as GUID partition Table. Go into Disk Utility, select the drive, drop down From Partition Layout Current to Partitions 1 (you can rename it in the top right). Then select Options, and select GUID partition table. Please note that you will lose all data on the drive doing this, so back it up first, then you can copy it over once you have set up the drive for encryption. Once Disk Utility finishes, right click on the drive and you can encrypt the drive from the drop down options. FYI - It does reduce disk speed a bit.
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TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted drive. http://www.filehippo.com/download_truecrypt/
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Well, all 4 of ours work pretty well, albeit they are not stunningly fast. I did notice the performance really slows down after the first couple TB of small files. But I suspect that's due to Samba, and I wish I could get into the unit, O/S wise, to tune it
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no. mine works, i mean turns on, vista sees, etc, but not even close to fully and properly. if you are trying to do a backup, try something different. in the encrypted mode, i can't even write additional files to the drive.
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I'm going to replace my 500MB 7200rpm hard drive. How will this compare in speed? I'm basically at 90-93% full due to photos and music!
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Ok so there's a few things you need to understand in relation to comparing speeds. First there's no standard read write speeds for hdds my 7200 3tb drive ranges from 72 to 150 MB/s Next plastered drives are hard to compare directly with solid state. Platter drives read faster on the inner tracks compared to the litter tracks. There's also spin - up and spin down time for a platter drive. Now this ssd WILL max out your 3gbs sata2 at about 300 to 380MB/s Of course you look and see oh that's only double. True long read will be about double speed. However, it's those short access small files that'll benefit the most. Ssds have no platter. So no spin speed. They just send as much as the device / interface can handle. They also don't "seek" for data so there's no time loss there. In random reads my ssd is roughly 60x faster over all. But if I'm moving a TB of movies or whatnot. It's not AS remarkably fast but still a 100% better experience.
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Thank you for contacting us. I am not sure so I looked at other posts about this. It seems they are very close in performance but this stood out: "The other thing to keep in mind when choosing a drive is that Western Digital?s enterprise drives are meant to be constantly in use, 24/7. The consumer drives are rated for 300,000 load/unload cycles, whereas the enterprise drives are are rated for double that at 600,000 load/unload cycles. This means the enterprise drive is guaranteed to have a longer use-life than a consumer drive under identical conditions." Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.
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Yes, hello, This Drive Works With NTFS and FAT, But FAT, in all Drives, can't save files bigger then 5GB or So. Even So, Everyhting is mostly NTFS now, so just use that. Now, When I Backup, I Use TrueCrypt to secure my backups, because i dont "trust" Windows Backup. But There Should Be now Problem. I'm Pretty Sure That when I Got the drive, It was allready formatted to NTFS with 931GB of Space. Just Configure You Settings in windows backup, and direct it to the PHD (Portbale Hard Drive) There should be no problems at all.
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My understanding is that NTFS provides more security and increases performance. Here is a link that will help understand the differences: http://www.diffen.com/difference/FAT32_vs_NTFS
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I can't say that my answer means much seeing as I've only had this drive for about 3 months, but so far it has been a very reliable drive. My only issue is that I have had some issues with the RPM's not being enough, but that's ONLY because the computer I was working on had so much data on it, that even the computer was having difficulty running programs.My apologies if this isn't helpful, but hope it helps!
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I am using USB 3 and performance is reasonable. Using Windows 8.1 Storage Spaces with full parity, I am getting ~20-40 MB/sec throughput on writes. I would recommend it for archive and backups. Not sure about the throughput yet for something like an active media server.
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Hi there, replying to you Q above,yes this device can perform all the tasks as mentioned above and my advice is youmust know your Source and Target drives when in use and it's a wonderful state of the art device to have for those indemand for accessing HDD/SSD on their computers etc,etc.i gave this device a 5 star on my customer review and i'll solmenly will recommend this device to my friends thank you Bernard Alfred, amazon shopper¬