<div dir="ltr">It's a slower drive, 5400 rpm. But I notice the performance hit pretty bad with the drive encryption. When I had it w/o, I used to run 2 vmware instances (win xp and win 2k3) without an issue....now just one makes the whole system crawl.<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br>I'll have to try my vmware workstation on my laptop. Turion X2 1.6GHz w/1GB RAM Fedora 9 with / swap encrypted. I can't see a performance hit on my drive encryption. It may just be that the drive itself is so slow... <br>
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