https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH229139.html
The following are the supported Opal v2 compliant eDrives for Drive Encryption:
- Samsung SSD 840 EVO mSATA
- Intel SSD Pro 2500
Drive Encryption manages these drives and uses the Opal drive's built-in hardware encryption capability when these drives are used with following laptop models:
- Lenovo ThinkPad W540
- Lenovo ThinkPad T540p
- Lenovo ThinkPad X240
Note: Above mentioned Opal Disks and Machine Models are Default supported models and are hardcoded to take advantage of Hardware Encryption. Other Combinations will default to Software Encryption.
I am using a Samsung SSD 840 with the latest firmware, and a Crucial SSD M500 with the latest firmware. Both support OPAL v2.
If I understand the above, it says that those "supported" configurations will default to hardware encryption, but I have my installer and Group Policy set to enable hardware encryption.
Unsupported Disk Types:
- Any configuration where the system partition is not on the same disk as the boot partition -- N/A, only storage in both machines
- Native mode advanced format drives -- N/A, NTFS
- Dynamic disks -- N/A, all are Basic disks
- SCSI drives and controllers -- N/A, all SATA
- Software RAID disks -- N/A, no RAID
- exFAT formatted disks -- N/A, NTFS
- Resilient File System (ReFS) -- N/A, NTFS
- Extended partitions. -- N/A, all primary partitions
Supported typically means the vendor says 'we have tested this and will give it our seal of approval'. I sure hope Symantec doesn't mean only two OPAL drives in three laptops can utilize hardware encryption?
Anyone else get hardware encryption working?