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Re:My laptop was stolen. by imsteve on Monday November 26, 2007 @01:39AM (#83503)
Performance isn't the problem. If any of your drives ever corrupt a single bit then all of your data is trashed (with most setups) and that's a big problem.
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Re:My laptop was stolen. by BitGeek on Tuesday November 27, 2007 @04:42AM (#83874)
This is no the case with filevault, when it is set up with a login account. I have lost encrypted disk images under OS X due to drive problems... but have had a filevault make it thru a failing disk without trouble.

It helps that the Mac has HFS+ and Journaling.

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