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some parttition manage apps are not even able to see it, etc.Īnother side effect (for Linux people): In practice you can not format as Ext4 a VeraCrypt partition if you try on windows. also BootIce see them as IFS: and not as HD#: or RM#. Such way of working of VeraCrypt (comes from TruCrypt, etc) causes another rare things, like SmartDefrag not able to see and defragment files on it (Piriform Deflagger can, so can be a bad algorithm on SmartDrefrag).

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To whom belongs the fault? In part to Windows NTFS that do not cache estructure changes, in part to VeraCrypt for not emulating a device. That causes a huge, very huge, slow down if compared with non-encrypted. so VeraCrypt must encrypt a lot of times something that will be putted on the exact same cluster of the disk. so in practice windows is asking VeraCrypt for encrypting the same structure a lot of times (when small files are written) in a short period of time. but modifing the NTFS estructure is done without cache.

So what happens? Windows writes to the NTFS estructure without write cache, then VeraCrypt do the encryption (yes pipelined) and send the encrypted data to the HDD, then Windows see the device has write cache on so waits a little to write the data. Well, that cache affects only to write operations done on the device, since the device is the physical one, it means for encrypted data written to the HDD, not for un-encrypted data written to the NTFS estructure. Remember if write cache is on, do not unplug without windows informing you can safely eject it. There you can select to fast extract (write cache off) or to better performance (write cache on).On the General tab click on the button to change the configuration.Go to Hardware and select the device on the list (here is the problem with VeraCrypt, it does not create a virtual controller).Select any of thoose, right click and go to properties.Open explorer and go to where you can see root folder of partitions mounted, C:, D:, etc.

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I am talking about windows write cache, so i will explain how to enable/disable it for people that do not know how:

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with that software writting small files is as fast as writting a big file (if such write cache is enabled on windows). so on windows you can enable and disable its write cache.

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I had tested with other Encryption software (very expensive) that emulates a whole SAS controller (yes Serial SCSI) and also emulates a whole HDD connected to it.

VeraCrypt seems to not allow windows to cache writes to the NTFS, because there is no way to Enable/Disable such cache, and small files writes is very, very slow.

Windows have write cache enabled (for the USB device), if not encrypted that cache improves a lot the small files writes.

and RAM, wow! it was 32GiB of ram in 4 sections, each one near to each processor socket with 4 banks each and a 2GiB ram on each bank 4Sections*4Banks/section*2GiB/Bank=32GiB. Oh, yes i had been very afortunated i could had (for some days only) a mainboard with 4 sockets and 4 microprocessors with 16 cores each, so a total of 64 cores. seems that it is not allowing caching the NTFS that is seen by windows, and Windows only can cache writes done to the HDD itself.

but, copying small files makes speed goes down to near 1KiB/s with write cache on.

With VeraCrypt encryption, speed can not be 1GiB/s, and goes down to arround 100MiB/s, CPU is not enought fast, among it has 64 cores (i will explain it later how to improve it).

Copying a huge big large file (more than 600GiB file) on non encrypted fly, took a little less than 10 minutes), copying a huge amount of really very small files (with write cache on) makes same speed, please note that write such huge amount of really very small files without write cache tooks forever, aka speed goes down to a 1KiB/s (yes kilobyte), all theese tests without encryption.

Encrypted with TrueCrypt, veraCrypt, DiskCryptor or any other will make read and write to be much more slower, the best i got is arrond 100MiB/s (one tenth of non encrypted), so encryption makes it to be ten times slower.

My tests with a USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type C hard disk (able to write at 10Gib/s, aka a little more than 1GiB/s) is: