Before I take the FileVault 2 plunge...

Sorry if this has been asked a million times before...I did a lot of searching and couldn't find anything.

I have been playing around with FV2 on my iMac the past couple days, and found it an enjoyable experience. I am contemplating enabling it on my Air (2011 13" i5), but have a couple questions first.

1. Will there be a noticeable difference? My iMac is using a platter drive, so I worry the faster throughput of the SSD will get throttled by having to encrypt/decrypt everything. I've read benchmarks, but benchmarks never tell the full story.

2. Will this introduce a lot of wear and tear on my drive? I'm assuming that it won't be any worse after the initial encryption process, but figure I should ask anyway.

3. Will my system run hotter?

4. Will my battery life take a significant hit?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks. I'll probably enable it later today. I suppose I can always disable it if I see any problems (at the cost of some wear and tear on the drive, natch).

Good to know! Thanks.

EDIT: Just enabled it. The login screen now accepts input only in QWERTY mode. Is there any way to change this?

Weaselboy said:

I believe the login screen uses the root keyboard and language. What do you have those set to?

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Dvorak.

Oh, I can type and transfer between the two just fine. It's just somewhat jarring to have one section of the OS use a different keyboard layout. It's all about consistency, you know?

I did find a potential fix, but the problem is the site's in German. I'll try a translation tool tomorrow. Thanks for the help.