Microsoft rolls out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11

Microsoft is rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker in Windows 11 to address growing performance and security concerns by ...
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Microsoft targets BitLocker slowdowns with hardware acceleration

Microsoft is trying to put an end to the long running trade off between full disk encryption and fast solid state storage by ...

Microsoft wants to fix BitLocker's slowdown with hardware acceleration

Microsoft will soon start "accelerating" input/output (I/O) operations for BitLocker-encrypted volumes on PC systems with ...

Microsoft Quietly Released Hardware-Accelerated BitLocker with Windows 11 25H2

Microsoft has started rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker capabilities in Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 ...

Microsoft's Hardware-Accelerated BitLocker Promises A Huge Performance Boost

Hardware-Accelerated BitLocker is on the way with some future updates to Windows 11, but it'll require next-gen processors to take advantage of it.
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Bitlocker hardware encryption cannot be activated on Win10 10586/1511

I'm having trouble enabling hardware encryption with Bitlocker using Windows 10 build 10586 on a clean install with a Samsung 850 SSD. The encryption worked flawlessly before on build 10240. I've ...