atomichybrid
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Hello there!
I have gone and upgraded my laptop hard drive to an SSD one and must say its a dream. My issue is that the SSD is quite limited in space, so I have purchased a 4tb external drive to compensate it. I was thinking of doing the bitlock encryption on the external for private files and important documents. Obviously bitlocking 4TB HDD will take forever, so I was thinking of partitioning the external and bitlock that small volume.
Is this a wise thing to do? Also if youre bitlocking on a new empty hard drive would it be faster encrypt as there are no files to encrypt? I know its dependent of the hard drive size but generally it would be quicker to encrypt an empty vs one with content. Right?
I'm open to other solutions too since I work on the laptop most of the time I was hoping to have the setup all there.
Cheers
I have gone and upgraded my laptop hard drive to an SSD one and must say its a dream. My issue is that the SSD is quite limited in space, so I have purchased a 4tb external drive to compensate it. I was thinking of doing the bitlock encryption on the external for private files and important documents. Obviously bitlocking 4TB HDD will take forever, so I was thinking of partitioning the external and bitlock that small volume.
Is this a wise thing to do? Also if youre bitlocking on a new empty hard drive would it be faster encrypt as there are no files to encrypt? I know its dependent of the hard drive size but generally it would be quicker to encrypt an empty vs one with content. Right?
I'm open to other solutions too since I work on the laptop most of the time I was hoping to have the setup all there.
Cheers