How to encrypt non-boot Volume so available at login?
Hi folks - this follows from my original hardware question Looking for the definitive answer on upgrading my Mac. Good news is the hardware upgrade and Big Sur clean install all went very well.
I now have a 240GB blade SSD as the Mac boot volume with Admin account, and a second 1TB SATA SSD as my Data volume for my regular user account and home folder.
Where I’m stuck now before getting too far restoring data… is it still possible to encrypt the SATA SSD using FileVault or similar, such that drive contents are encrypted until login? It seems FileVault only supports the boot volume which is the blade only, and I tried creating an encrypted volume on the SATA but is does not automatically decrypt at login and login then fails.
Seems this would be a fairly common use case especially for the higher end machines with multiple physical storage drives.
Is there a simple way through this? Potentially I could recreate the Fusion set combining the 2 SSDs but understand that is a bad idea from performance and reliability POV (one drive dies and it all becomes inaccessible).
Thanks much
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