The volume mass market will likely go for performance, reliability and durability before they opt for encryption. After connection bandwidth, the largest gating item for computer performance is hard drive access time.
Besides, both mechanical hard drives and solid state hard drives are nothing but bit repositories. The only difference is the manner in which data is read and written. There is nothing to prevent encryption on a Flash drive, should demand ever warrant the approach.
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