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    Plextor M5M Encryption?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by ablahblah, Feb 5, 2014.

  1. ablahblah

    ablahblah Notebook Consultant

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    I have a 128GB Plextor M5M mSATA SSD in my system, but I have no idea how to work with the encryption engine built onto it, specifically with Bitlocker. Supposedly the M5M it has hardware AES-256 bit support, but when I turned on bitlocker on my system (In AES-256 bit mode enabled via Group Policy, with TPM), I got the usual software encrypting window and it took around 20 minutes to complete encryption of the volume. I just realized lately that Bitlocker can leverage the hardware encryption of some drives with eDrive compatibility like the crucial M500, but I haven't been able to find a definitive list of supported drives for this either.

    It appears that hardware-enabled bitocker is faster than that of software Bitlocker, which is why I'm interested. Any comments would be appreciated :eek:
     
    ablahblah, Feb 5, 2014
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  2. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    I have an 512gb M5pro Extreme with 256 bit encryption that i have yet to try, i have heard that some bio`s have an encryption option my bios does not, , if it does not you will need software like the bitlocker you mentioned.

    John.
     
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    The hardware encryption of the Plextor drive is always enabled. I just don't know if it will work with any third party utilities such as the Bitlocker; I haven't been able to find much information on what exactly eDrive is or a list of supported drives either.
     
    ltc228, Feb 20, 2014
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