Full disk encryption and eCrytpfs home directory encryption on Ubntu 13.10 against no encryption for Intel SSD on Ubuntu 13.10 with Linux 3.11 Kernel. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1309011-SO-DISKENCRY67
Ubuntu 13.10 Disk Encryption Performance,
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock - No Encryption",724.16,719.36,754
"Full Disk Encryption",487.46,489.38,516.7
"Home Directory Encryption",192.41,190.14,190.43
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock - No Encryption",367.08,369.07,365.01
"Full Disk Encryption",293.25,273.04,275.22
"Home Directory Encryption",121.09,128.09,125.9
"Dbench 4.0 - Client Count: 1",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock - No Encryption",321.231,320.281,320.164
"Full Disk Encryption",293.796,295.487,292.703
"Home Directory Encryption",226.087,225.731,226.494
"Flexible IO Tester 1.57 - Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern",
Lower Results Are Better
"Stock - No Encryption",66.505988836288,65.19387793541,65.108902931213
"Full Disk Encryption",114.56820702553,113.32654809952,111.43366718292
"Home Directory Encryption",62.799078941345,61.75887799263,62.169206142426
"FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock - No Encryption",291.9,231.4,204,287.9,205.7,235.9
"Full Disk Encryption",128.3,110.2,113,111.7,124.4,124.8
"Home Directory Encryption",126.5,124,125.1
"FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock - No Encryption",409.2,409.2,408.8
"Full Disk Encryption",109.2,100.4,127.2,156.8,136,140.4
"Home Directory Encryption",140.4,140,140
"FS-Mark 3.3 - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock - No Encryption",247.7,252.1,255.6
"Full Disk Encryption",128,124.8,122.2
"Home Directory Encryption",123,123.1,123.3
"IOzone 3.405 - Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock - No Encryption",484.9306640625,470.005859375,423.79296875,484.3984375,484.78515625,484.40234375
"Full Disk Encryption",144.9140625,142.189453125,141.736328125
"Home Directory Encryption",139.9072265625,138.689453125,138.8046875
"PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Stock - No Encryption",5319,5208,5208
"Full Disk Encryption",5102,5102,5102
"Home Directory Encryption",1689,1677,1677