Benefits of hardware encrypted SSDs
Upgrading your organisation’s PC and laptop fleet to SSDs, whether to obtain better baseline performance from SATA or use NVMe to get peak performance efficiency, allows faster application start-up times. What’s more, compared to their HDD counterparts, they offer better reliability, cooler and quieter running all while consuming less power.
This is important for several reasons. Hardware encryption offers more robust security measures than software encryption alone since the encryption and authentication process stays within the SSD itself, rather than separating it from the rest of the system. This means that the encryption process is not taking valuable bandwidth away from the CPU, which gives you a further performance boost for your other applications with less time to encrypt and decrypt your data.
Comparing Software vs Hardware-Based Encryption
We tested one of our self-encrypted SSDs to show you the difference, and as you can see below, the time it takes to encrypt/decrypt an SSD is far shorter when using a hardware-based encrypted SSD than when using software encryption alone.
When this is compounded over an entire IT estate rollout, the time differences could be considerable.
Switch to SSDs with hardware-based encryption
SSDs play a vital role in offering a more cost-effective way of futureproofing your IT estate as well as offering performance benefits, allowing you to get more out of your organisation’s hardware. But using SSDs with hardware-based encryption allows you to amplify these benefits while also providing a further tool to enhance your security policy.
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