We are not backing up to the same box as the data. Backups are being stored offsite as part of our DR. Disk IO on our SAN that...

Looks like it was a problem with our SAN. Thanks for the help and advise.

Thanks. I have a test environment so I think I’ll just baseline this without TDE and then run the same tests with TDE enabled on multiple databases. Although...

Thanks! I think scripting is the way forward to be honest.