this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2025
1 points (100.0% liked)

It's A Digital Disease!

23 readers
1 users here now

This is a sub that aims at bringing data hoarders together to share their passion with like minded people.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
bOt@zerobytes.monster
1
Will encryption of my large HDD make it noticeably slower? (zerobytes.monster)
submitted 5 months ago by bOt@zerobytes.monster to c/datahoarder@zerobytes.monster
0 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Daniel_Delgado on 2025-03-28 15:48:10.

Hello, I want to encrypt my 4TB and 18TB HDDs, Seagate Iron Wolf and Exos, Windows 10 as my OS,

I saw video on youtube that encryption could sugnificantly affect the write performance of encrypted HDD,

and want to know whether its true or not before i encrypt my disks.

I want to encrypt the entire drives.

I am planning to use Vera Crypt but I am also open to suggestion of encryption software.

I need to transfer relatively large amounts of data (100s GBs / TBs) across those disks

Thanks for all the answers

no comments (yet)
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
there doesn't seem to be anything here