Encrypt your home computers?

[Rydra]

Would you/Do you encrypt the drives on your home computers?

 

I have a fairly powerful PC, with 2 SSD's as install drives, and a pair of Mechanical drives in mirrored array for data storage of things I don't want to lose. I have W10 ultimate.

 

If you've done it, does it impact on performance of your PC for gaming and other duties to any noticeable extent?

 

What is the protocol for recovering the data to another computer in the event of the PC going splat?

 

I also have 2 laptops, both with windows 8 (one pro/ultimate, one Home Premium) that I think I might do as well, but depends on how much affect it might have on their performance, as I do not want to run into issues as a result of it.

[Geoff]

Everything has SSDs here. The performance implications are minimal when using Linux / LUKS disk encryption.

Boot decryption and recovery is via an Amazon EC2 instance that keeps a copy of the keys. If the EC2 system isn't logged into for 7 days the EC2 instance will self immolate (Anti-RIPA dead mans switch). The EC2 instance migrates between regions every 30 minutes and rotates its IP. BYW I only did this to teach myself AWS but it's a good giggle.

[rad]

I think I turned on an option on my Mac that encrypts the drive, so my backups are secure too.

 

I’m not sure if it downgrades performance doing it, but the Mac does run slower than it should.

[DalekSec]

Mac is encrypted, my PC isn't good luck to anyway who steals it, it weights half a ton!

[newpersn]

I’ve noticed on non-ssds it does slow down but on ssds I don’t notice any slowness evening when encrypting.

 

SSDs all the way.

[Rydra]

Other than Geoff's interesting read, anyone tried this on a home style/gaming PC, and had any experience of accessing the data from another machine in event of hardware failure for Windows?

 

I don't plan on moving to linux/unix/mac, so afraid this isn't all that relevant.

[GillBates]

I’ve noticed on non-ssds it does slow down but on ssds I don’t notice any slowness evening when encrypting.

 

SSDs all the way.

 

Is this on a windows 10 machine?

thanks

[newpersn]

Is this on a windows 10 machine?

thanks

 

Yes Windows 10 Laptops

[GillBates]

Yes Windows 10 Laptops

 

good to know thanks - had just been asked this yesterday and the user is a bit resistant to change so didn't want to do it if it was going to ruin their experience with their new laptop

[Norphy]

Other than Geoff's interesting read, anyone tried this on a home style/gaming PC, and had any experience of accessing the data from another machine in event of hardware failure for Windows?

 

I don't plan on moving to linux/unix/mac, so afraid this isn't all that relevant.

 

If you're using Bitlocker, it's trivial. You connect the hard drive from the failed device to another Windows PC. Windows detects that it's a bitlocker encrypted volume and asks for the key. You put the key in, Windows mounts the volume and you're able to access the data.