why is it taking so long to encrypt 500 GB

[Frankie²]

im encrypting my laptop with aes 256 and it's working at about 0.5 MB/s when it should be around the limitations of my harddrive. help?

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[LagoomSack]

encrypting has to randomize so that takes time

[Blockzillahead]

The algorithm behind AES encryption is expected to be slow.

[Ipquarx]

encrypting has to randomize so that takes time

The algorithm behind AES encryption is expected to be slow.

The levels of "i dont know what the forget im talking about" are skyrocketing

[Frankie²]

could a password have anything to do with it?  its currently has 8 chars, 5 of which are letters and the other 3 being numbers

[Nickelob Ultra]

no experience with encrypting files but i imagine it takes a while for 500 goddam GB because it's 500 goddam GB and you probably have a pentium

[Frankie²]

no experience with encrypting files but i imagine it takes a while for 500 goddam GB because it's 500 goddam GB and you probably have a pentium

intel i5 3337 @ 1.8 GHz

[Ipquarx]

no experience with encrypting files but i imagine it takes a while for 500 goddam GB because it's 500 goddam GB and you probably have a pentium

AES encrypts for him at 400mb/s. And for the guy who said it was slow, for me it encrypts at 2GB/s. -.-

Try cancelling the encryption, restarting the computer, make sure nothing else is using up CPU and try again.

[Nickelob Ultra]

intel i5 3337 @ 1.8 GHz

that stuff should be going up to 2.7 GHz turbo boost.

AES encrypts for him at 400mb/s. And for the guy who said it was slow, for me it encrypts at 2GB/s. -.-

Try cancelling the encryption, restarting the computer, make sure nothing else is using up CPU and try again.

2 gigabytes a second?  calling bullstuff to the extreme

[Nal]

Why are you encrypting 500gb

[Nikolan]

Why are you encrypting 500gb

so he can keep up his cyber crime act and when the police start searching to make sure hes fit for work they dont find all the nudes of him hes sent

[Frankie²]

AES encrypts for him at 400mb/s. And for the guy who said it was slow, for me it encrypts at 2GB/s. -.-

Try cancelling the encryption, restarting the computer, make sure nothing else is using up CPU and try again.

tried that, doesn't change much, nothing out of the ordinary cpu wise

Why are you encrypting 500gb

incase it gets stolen
windows passwords are about as effective as using a blanket to smother an earthquake

[Ipquarx]

2 gigabytes a second?  calling bullstuff to the extreme

The i5 has built-in processor instructions specifically for encrypting with AES; which is 8x faster than the regular implementations. It's not even close to BS. 'Course, my harddrive is nowhere near that speed so it would only encrypt however fast my harddrive can read and write.

[Nickelob Ultra]

The i5 has built-in processor instructions specifically for encrypting with AES; which is 8x faster than the regular implementations. It's not even close to BS. 'Course, my harddrive is nowhere near that speed so it would only encrypt however fast my harddrive can read and write.

the i5 instructions i can believe, but yeah no way a HDD would be able to do that.  SSD yeah.

[Frankie²]

so he can keep up his cyber crime act and when the police start searching to make sure hes fit for work they dont find all the nudes of him hes sent

not yet, i still need to get a vpn