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Anyone else losing overall speed from Bitlocker?
I have encrypted my drive 3 times, running a benchmark before and after encryption. I finally settled on 128 aes-xts default on Bitlocker. These tests were done with fresh installs of windows 10 home, and a windows 10 pro upgrade added right after with no other software installed on the computer.
The hard drive, Seagate Firecuda dropped from 117% to 86% overall performance.
CPU i3-7100 dropped from 71.5 to 69.2
The Nvidia 1050 Ti graphics card dropped from 39.4 to 34.1
Memory 8gb, no change.
The computer went from 88th performance percentile down to 56th. What a hit. With Veracrypt 256 aes encryption, the performance drop on my Dell and Gateway computers was only about 1-2%. I could not even notice it. Where as my brand new Acer with Bitlocker encryption was so noticeable, it prompted me to bench it. I thought I had a virus.
Bitlocker is a virus![]()