Full Disk Encryption Performance With Ubuntu 25.04 + Framework Laptop 13 Strix Point
Aside from the synthetic I/O benchmarks, only in heavy database workloads was there any observable performance difference from making use of full disk encryption on Ubuntu 25.04 with this Framework Laptop 13 using an AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" SoC. Even if you are frequently running heavy I/O and database workloads for whatever reason on your laptop, I definitely still recommend making use of full disk encryption if there is any personal/sensitive information on the device. It's a cost worth accepting.
Making use of the full disk encryption in this modern hardware/software environment also hadn't led to any added impact around the device's thermals or power consumption. The performance difference of using full disk encryption with modern storage and processors and with recent Linux distributions is typically very minimal and certainly worth it as a data safeguard.
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