title: Running SQL Server on an encrypted drive/partition
body: <p>Has anyone had experience with this?  I am running Windows 7 x64 on my laptop with Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008.  I am pondering the idea of whether this is possible and what the effect would be on performance to encrypt the drive with PGP, OpenCrypt or some other utility.  </p>
  
  <p>I had thought of the following scenarios that I would use to do this:
  1. Encrypt the drive straight out, it and all of it's contents.
  2. Create a second un-encrypted partition and move the SQL data files to that partition and point SQL Server to that path.
  3. Create a second un-encrypted partition and install SQL Server to that path along with its data files. </p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>