[SulfurHexaFluri]

This is a USB hard drive though. Even a cheap laptop can encrypt data faster than you can transfer over USB.

Maybe I might understand if this was some kind of server SSD but even then im not sure it would make sense.

[paulryanrogers]

That is true today. It hasn't always been true.

In fact Microsoft's own BitLocker dropped reliance on hardware encryption to workaround this same problem. And now that the performance impact is minimal it makes sense to default to software.