duntuk

Keyfile will be harder to decrypt than passphrase, and is easier to work with. Ex: put keyfile on a thumb, and in veracrypt settings, set the default keyfile to point to that thumb, and click the checkbox to try the keyfile without password.

At the current state of Veracrypt, I wouldn't recomend using it on SSDs. Which is really a big deal, considering SSDs are the way to go on current systems--no one is recommending not using SSDs.

On HDDs, veracrypt (using 1.23 beta 1), performance is good... On SSDs, currently horrible... on NVME drives, you'll see a 50% decrease

Tramendous...

Learned something new from both suggestions... Thanks!

I posted this to another thread just now... I did a similar thing... What fixed it...

The screenshot gets cut off where it shows the actual calculated disk usage. Here...

I did a similar thing... What fixed it for me was to use Paragaon Hard Disk Manager...