For the past several years I’ve used Skype almost exclusively for ‘internal’ communications (text, voice, file transfers, etc.), but after getting really fed up with it recently (for reasons I won’t explain in this post) I decided to go ahead a look for an alternative. During my search I came across a variety of different …
I recently got a new Samsung 850 Pro SSD (the 256GB version), and after installing it on my computer, I wanted to fully encrypt it. You see, the newer Samsung SSDs (840 EVO, 850) have support for hardware-accelerated encryption, reducing the encryption overhead from ~15% to almost nothing. However, it appears that the encryption process is …