If you do a full disk encryption setup while running a full Bitcoin Core node on an SSD drive, does the very demanding i/o activity while downloading+verifying the blockchain do too much wear and tear on the drive?
Sorry for being late to the conversation. I'm curious why you would want to encrypt the drive. You might want to put your wallet and perhaps bitcoin.conf on an encrypted drive, but there is no reason to encrypt anything else. If you only have a single storage device, I bet there is a way that you can split it into two drives and make one of them encrypted.