Hello, I'm fairly new to this and I just have one query.
I have an 8TB HDD. I'm going to encrypt 1.5TB from there. I'm already using VC to encrypt 250GB from an SSD and it takes time to load up.
What main resources (aside from drive type) affect the speed at which encrypted files are "unlocked"?
Last edit: Sab 2020-02-27
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Threading/Pipelining and Hardware acceleration: Check Settings... >> Performance/Driver Configuration to verify if your processor supports AES hardware acceleration, and additionally perform benchmark of algorithms. (2 GiB/s on AES is acceptable up to 3 or 4 SATA partitions. NVME may require twice or more to cope its high bandwidth)
Use of auto-mount: If you have many storage drives connected VeraCrypt will try to decrypt each one, mounting matching password. For your convenience try manually mount your partition or store as favourite volume.
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Last edit: Solar Survey Monitor 2020-02-28
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Ah , thanks. Forgot about resource monitor. My CPU (i7 6700k) gets 6.3GiB/s so it's good. Upgrading to the next gen AMD CPU when it's released anyway; more cores might help. Disk usage maxes out when mounting so it looks like the HDD will be the slowing factor.
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An update if anyone looks at this thread. Turns out all VC encrypted files are unlocked within 15 seconds regardless of size. I didn't expect that to be the case :)
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Hello, I'm fairly new to this and I just have one query.
I have an 8TB HDD. I'm going to encrypt 1.5TB from there. I'm already using VC to encrypt 250GB from an SSD and it takes time to load up.
What main resources (aside from drive type) affect the speed at which encrypted files are "unlocked"?
Last edit: Sab 2020-02-27
Some things to take in account:
High background CPU usage
Old CPU (5 year or more)
Threading/Pipelining and Hardware acceleration: Check Settings... >> Performance/Driver Configuration to verify if your processor supports AES hardware acceleration, and additionally perform benchmark of algorithms. (2 GiB/s on AES is acceptable up to 3 or 4 SATA partitions. NVME may require twice or more to cope its high bandwidth)
Use of auto-mount: If you have many storage drives connected VeraCrypt will try to decrypt each one, mounting matching password. For your convenience try manually mount your partition or store as favourite volume.
Last edit: Solar Survey Monitor 2020-02-28
Ah , thanks. Forgot about resource monitor. My CPU (i7 6700k) gets 6.3GiB/s so it's good. Upgrading to the next gen AMD CPU when it's released anyway; more cores might help. Disk usage maxes out when mounting so it looks like the HDD will be the slowing factor.
An update if anyone looks at this thread. Turns out all VC encrypted files are unlocked within 15 seconds regardless of size. I didn't expect that to be the case :)