Windows 11 Bitlocker eDrive not working well on certain notebooks

  • Thread starter Thread starter Thorakson
  • Start date Start date
T

Thorakson

I am the owner of a Dell XPS with a TCG Opal 2.0 & IEEE1667 compatible Samsung 980 Pro SSD.Before some of you will tell me not to use hardware encryption because of alleged weaknesses, I am aware of this paper and frankly modern Samsung SSDs were not affected as long as hardware encryption was utilized by TCG Opal. Also software encryption does lower performance, even with AES-NI.That being said, there seems to be a problem with eDrive when used in Notebooks (such as Dell or XMG) that also allow you to set a password to NVMe drives via the UEFI: Once eDrive is enabled, the UEFI of the Not

Continue reading...
 
Back
Top