Western Digital Launches Security Platform for Portable Storage with G-Technology's ArmorLock-Encrypted NVMe SSD September 3, 2020 https://www.anandtech.com/show/1606...ith-gtechnologys-armorlockencrypted-nvme-ssd- Western Digital: Western Digital Sets a New Standard in Data Protection with Ground-Breaking ArmorLock Security Platform
Sounds cool, but what I have never understood is the following: on smartphones all data is encrypted automatically, but why has this never been the case with drives on laptops and desktops? Is it because of the size of those SSD/HDD drives, it's simply too much data to encrypt?
It's probably for support reasons. People would forget their encryption password and lose their data forever. Then they would call the drive manufacturer and complain.
I didn't even think of that. But you're saying that it should be technically possible to encrypt and decrypt data let's say on a 512GB SSD within a matter of seconds?
Encryption and decryption would be done on the data that is being accessed in the moment. It would add a little overhead to the I/O process but not a lot. In some cases it is done faster than the drive is capable of reading or writing anyway.
OK I see. Because when you think about it, most people probably don't encrypt their data on laptops and desktops. I was actually surprised when I learned that on smartphones, data is encrypted automatically. Also weird that BitLocker isn't a standard feature on Win 10 Home.
