What happens when a SSD fails and has to be swapped out for a replacement with the data recovered from a backup?

don't  know,  still on  windows  10  probably   will  arrive  to  windows  10 most likely

It would be extremely remiss of Microsoft to force something on customers without their express permission especially when the consequences could be so severe. But we’re talking about a Microsoft totally different to the one invented by Bill Gates.

I have Windows 11 Pro. I’ll do some research.

Looks to me like a good measure.

I have, since more than a year, my laptop associated with a an Outlook account and the Windows Hello, folders encrypted, and wouldn't go back...

Given the danger of using Internet these days, it is a "necessary nuisance" ... and I'd rather have the laptop encrypted and the key stored in my MS account than in the hands of some hacker...

Encryption adds a significant amount of processing delay to read/write operations to/from non-volatile storage, which makes me wonder about what that portends in the way of performance impacts for real time apps like simulations.

I am really, really, really tired of people trying to "protect" me. I don't need any "help" and don't want any. Maybe I'll just go back to DOS and enjoy life.

 

 

10 hours ago, W2DR said:

I am really, really, really tired of people trying to "protect" me. I don't need any "help" and don't want any. Maybe I'll just go back to DOS and enjoy life.

While I get your feeling, your understanding is incorrect.

Microsoft doesn't care about you. They don't want to spend a single dollar to "protect" you.

What Microsoft cares about is the millions of infected PCs around the internet which are used to drive attacks on major institutions, hospitals etc... What they call "zombies" computers. What Microsoft cares about is legal actions from these institutions who got attacked because Microsoft operating systems are not secure enough and they didn't do anything to prevent such attacks.

So now MS wants to encrypt your data. You being more secure is merely a side-effect. They just want your computer and user accesses to me less easilly accessible to cyber-terrorists. And especially, they don't want any lawyer to be able to say that they are not actively fighting against that risk.

Edited May 17, 20242 yr by Daube

On 5/16/2024 at 11:18 AM, Bob Scott said:

Encryption adds a significant amount of processing delay to read/write operations to/from non-volatile storage, which makes me wonder about what that portends in the way of performance impacts for real time apps like simulations.

It's all done in hardware with dedicated instructions these days. The latency is orders of magnitude less than the latency required to read off the device.

Cheers

I'm sick of Microsoft period. If it weren't for simming I would be on something else. Everytime they send an update something gets screwed up on my computer.

 

Bill W

48 minutes ago, BillW said:

I'm sick of Microsoft period. If it weren't for simming I would be on something else. Everytime they send an update something gets screwed up on my computer.

Minor changes are inevitable.
At the moment, I am having to reinstate all of the file associations to apps,
which appear to have been revoked, probably by the most recent Windows update.
While it is slightly irritating, it's not hard to do.
What Windows updates cannot do is fix pre-existing errors, so if it's every time, perhaps there are some of those present. 

On 5/18/2024 at 8:30 AM, Luke said:

It's all done in hardware with dedicated instructions these days. The latency is orders of magnitude less than the latency required to read off the device.

Well...maybe not all done in hardware these days...

About six months ago Tom's Hardware published a comparison test of Win11 Pro with no encryption, bitlocker software encryption, and bitlocker hardware encryption--the on-by-default *software* encryption was 45% slower than no encryption, and a wash between hardware encryption and no encryption. 

If Microsoft is now enabling bitlocker on Windows Home editions, I do find myself wondering if that's restricted to the slow software version, and not the much faster hardware-enabled version.  I would not be shocked to find that's the case.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-software-bitlocker-slows-performance

Also, apparently the default bitlocker version, even on Pro Windows versions, is the slow software encryption, and user intervention is needed to activate hardware encryption (assuming the presence of the required hardware and that hardware encryption has been made available in the version of Windows you're running).