Does container access/mount speed depend from container size?

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Does container access/mount speed depend from container size?

Forum: Technical Topics

Creator: Thomas

Created: 2021-10-11

Updated: 2021-10-11

Thomas - 2021-10-11

Assume I create VC container with size 10 GB.

I got the impression that the time for mounting this container and assigning it to a drive letter and accessing files in it is MUCH slower that for another, smaller VC container of only size 500 MB (on same NTFS partition)

So does container access/mount speed depend from container size?

Can you confirm this?

Thomas

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Enigma2Illusion - 2021-10-11

Size of any type of VeraCrypt volume, disk, partition and file container does not impact the mount times since VeraCrypt reads the header to check for valid hash match after you enter your password, PIM and/or keyfile(s) then retrieves the encryption key from the header.

https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Header%20Key%20Derivation.html

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