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by jpalomaki 3304 days ago
Yes. And with suitable hardware Bitlocker actually uses the SSD encryption which is anyways enabled, so there's zero performance hit. The drawback is that not all modern hardware supports it [1,2]. For example the Samsung 960 series do not support this. Since Apple controls the whole stack, I would assume they are also doing this, but I'm not sure.

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831627(v=ws.11...

[2]https://helgeklein.com/blog/2015/01/how-to-enable-bitlocker-...