Inquiry about SSD wear and tear when adding files to VeraCrypt container
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Does the process of adding a file to a VeraCrypt container result in changes to the entire volume of the container, causing wear and tear on the entire SSD, or is it limited only to the size of the added file? Can you provide any evidence or documentation to support your answer? Thank you.
in other words, if I add a 1 MB file to a 30 GB container, will the SSD wear be 30 GB?
It's unlikely for VeraCrypt to always rewrite an entire container for every simple change. If this would be the case, I would have to wait hours for my USB thumb drive to get a 100 GiB container rewritten, everytime I add, delete or update a file.
I've got no evidence or documentation entry to provide, just the logical conclusion above.
Greets
No, as i know XTS encryption is made that it doesnt need previous block for encryption of next data. Its good in case you have some data corrupted, with CBC mode of operation you will be unable open whole encrypted disk/partition/container. With XTS you will access all data except that corrupted. :-)