

MACBOOK ENCRYPTION TYPE SERIAL
The final form of drive security uses a set of commands under Serial ATA standards to lock a drive with a password. If you forget a hardware encryption password, you can use the PSID revert tool in the Crucial® Storage Executive tool to reset the drive.
MACBOOK ENCRYPTION TYPE SOFTWARE
Similiarly to how software encryption works, you will need to find a program to manage hardware encryption (such as BitLocker or McAfee® Endpoint). While software encryption could potentially take many hours to complete encrypting hardware encryption utilities like Microsoft® BitLocker® let you turn encryption on or off in less than a minute. Other benefits are the ability to encrypt or decrypt a drive in just a few clicks. It is practically impossible for someone to recover data from a drive that is locked without the encryption key. Hardware encryption has many security benefits because the controllers and encryption standards are so robust.
MACBOOK ENCRYPTION TYPE HOW TO
Crucial® MX-series SSDs come with a 256-bit AES encryption controller, which allows you take advantage of full hardware disk encryption, and is sometimes referred to as a SED (Self-Encrypting Drive). Check out our extensive knowledge base to learn more about hardware encryption requirements with Crucial SSDs and how to set it up, see how self-encrypting SSDs enhance data security and protect your organization, or get an even more in-depth look at how hardware encryption works in our drives. You’ll need to make sure you have a computer that has a built-in controller that supports hardware encryption. This frees the CPU from having to compute the information, which means you’ll get the most performance possible out of your drive. Unlike software encryption, hardware encryption uses a controller built into the drive to do all the hard work. Some drives come with built-in controllers that allow you to enable hardware encryption. Takes a long time to encrypt and decrypt data.


