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    Drive Encryption on the Aorus SSDs?

    Discussion in 'Gigabyte and Aorus' started by wanderer82, Feb 25, 2015.

  1. wanderer82

    wanderer82 Notebook Guru

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    Hi All,
    Does anyone have experience with using drive encryption on these gigabyte laptops? I was thinking of installing Symantec's encryption product and doing a full drive encryption to satisfy some work requirements. Anyone know if this will impact gaming performance or some of the downsides to this? Googling the subject doesn't put much recent information out there on this matter.

    Thanks in advance
     
    wanderer82, Feb 25, 2015
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    SeagateBoy Notebook Consultant

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    Have you tried bitlocker? if it's for work your company might be able to give you Win 8.1 Pro / Enterprise which has bitlocker.
     
    SeagateBoy, Feb 25, 2015
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    wanderer82 Notebook Guru

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    Company gave me Symantec Pgp desktop. Unfortunately raid 0 is not supported with full drive encryption, so I think I will need to not use raid and reinstall everything =(
     
    wanderer82, Feb 26, 2015
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    Well, the good thing is that RAID doesn't really help unless you're doing sequential reads/writes which seldom happen in normal use, so it's not going to have too much performance impact
     
    SeagateBoy, Feb 26, 2015
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    I'm going to try BitLocker with the RAID 0. So will be doing a fresh install with windows 8.1 pro hopefully tomorrow. I'll report back on how it goes. These crucial drives have built in hardware encryption, so bitlocker is just used to store the key and to tell the drive not to decrypt without the key. So no loss of performance either.
     
    wanderer82, Mar 1, 2015
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    Just wanted to circle back. I purchased a Windows 8.1 Pro copy, and did a fresh install. Once the install was complete, I updated all of the drivers. The Driver Utility that Gigabyte gives is awesome, it links out to the latest versions of each driver needed.

    I followed the steps located here to activate BitLocker without a TMP chip:
    http://rc.partners.org/kbase?cat_id=9&art_id=245

    After activating BitLocker, things are working like a charm. I haven't noticed any performance hits, and now I have a fully secured laptop.

    Hope this helps
     
    wanderer82, Mar 3, 2015
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    Glad you got it working :)
     
    SeagateBoy, Mar 9, 2015
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    wanderer82 Notebook Guru

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    Thanks! My biggest issues were with the access control to folders once I got everything back installed. I had to grant all users on my laptop access to the NVIDIA folder on the C drive so that I could use the NVIDIA control panel to tell it what applications to use the NVIDIA card with. Boy oh boy did I spend many hours trying to figure that one out, with LOTS of googling... otherwise all my games were using the integrated graphics - no Bueno!
     
    wanderer82, Mar 9, 2015
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    You might want to post your experience with BitLocker, especially with the NVIDIA folder, might be a great help to other people ......
     
    SeagateBoy, Mar 13, 2015
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    That NVIDIA problems seems very, very strange. Once the drive is unlocked during boot, the end user should not notice any difference at all as to how the drives operate. I have used Bitlocker (both with and without TPM) for one year now, and have never encountered that problem, even when using the NVIDIA Control Panel to change the apps which should use the dGPU.
     
    bkvamme, Mar 14, 2015
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