(We are conveniently ignoring things like UEFI BIOS settings, TPM, Drive Passwords, etc.) The high-level steps to provision a Samsung EVO SSD are: It seems provisioning Samsung EVO SSDs is a non-trivial task. …And there was much rejoicing! … Wait a second, he said “With a correctly provisioned device”… With a correctly provisioned device, you can now encrypt your entire drive without the ugly performance impacts BitLocker normally extracts.
Samsung EVO SSD drives (Such as the 850 EVO and 850 PRO) now support Microsoft’s eDrive hardware encryption.
