The Performance Impact Of Linux Disk Encryption On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 10 March 2014 at 12:50 AM EDT. Page 4 of 5. 38 Comments.
When running Dbench the full-disk encryption method didn't have much of a performance drag at all while the home directory encryption with eCryptfs still led to a noticeable impact.
Again, the same story.