I have a 500GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD. It is going to be used as a second SSD in a Windows 7 laptop. I have encrypted it with Truecrypt and tested it with Crystal Disk Mark, and I am getting 165 MB/s read/write speeds after encryption. According to the Samsung 840 EVO review video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1bumZr2WjI#t=686
at the 11:25 minute mark, this drive should be getting 500 MB/s read/write speeds. When i run the Samsung Magician software to install the firmware, it says that it cannot detect the drive (probably because it is encrypted). But this drive shows up with its own drive letter because I encrypted the drive itself and not just a partition.
Does anyone have any idea of how I can get better performance from this drive? maybe there is a better way to encrypt this second SSD. It is just required to have this drive encrypted for PCI compliance as it will be installed into a laptop.
Thanks for your help and replies.