On 29.06.2013, Roberto Ragusa wrote: > CPUs with AES-NI make encryption speed penalty basically null (even on a SSD); This is not true in my case. My OCZ Vertex delivers 465 MB/s unencrypted, and 167 MB/s encrypted with aes-xts-plain64:sha256 using the Core i5-2450's AES-NI and AVX instruction set.