FileVault 2 Benchmarks Show Full Disk Encryption is Faster Than Ever in OS X Lion FileVault 2 is the all new disk encryption method that comes with Lion, and it’s more secure than ever, using XTS-AES 128 encryption on your entire disk, as opposed to just the user directory as in past versions. The other huge change that came with FileVault 2 is the significant performance boost, where using full d
