Originally Posted by
boberonicus
What program were you using? Many of them cause performance problems during initial encryption but are transparent during everyday use. I'm using
PGP Whole Disk Encryption on a much less muscular machine and it's fine. Full disclosure: they're a client of mine.
I also use PGP WDE and have not experienced any measurable performance hit going all the way back to IBM T41's. Oh, and I have no relation to PGP Corp other than as a satisfied customer.