Jim Doty

Thanks for the tip theincogtion. I rejected Bitlocker before because it had all sorts of security issues, but they have now corrected those, so I gave it a try: 6/3/2020 With full encryption of the System Partition--VeraCrypt 1.23-Hotfix-2 (64 bit)--I reran the benchmarks and got: Sequential Read: 709 MB/s Sequential Write: 770 MB/s Random (IOPS) Read: 32,470 Random (IOPS) Write: 21,484 After removing encryption of the System Partition--no encryption at all--I reran the benchmarks and got: Sequential...

I tried upgrading Windows 10 1803 to 1903 without decrypting using https://github.com/th-wilde/veracrypt-w10-patcher. It worked nicely upgrading to 1803, but going to 1903 proved problematic. I used the media creation tool to create a bootable USB stick, then ran the script, and kept getting "disk out of space" errors during the script, even though the USB had a 16 GB capacity. So I copied all the unaltered files from the USB stick to a folder on my HD, then ran the script there. It converted the...

I just replaced the HDD in my Sony VAIO with a new Samsung SSD 860 EVO 1TB. I used Samsung Magician to run performance benchmarks, and before encryption I got the following: Sequential Read: 3,109 MB/s Sequential Write: 3,344 MB/s Random (IOPS) Read: 58,349 Random (IOPS) Write: 30,273 After full encryption of the System Partition, I reran the benchmarks and got: Sequential Read: 812 MB/s Sequential Write: 646 MB/s Random (IOPS) Read: 19,287 Random (IOPS) Write: 16,845 That's a 4:1 reduction in Sequential...

I have a fully encrypted Windows 10 volume on my notebook, and to upgrade from 1607 to 1709 I started decrypting it, which will take about 24 hours. Then I found the "Windows 10 media patcher for upgrading VeraCrypt encrypted systems", and I'd like to stop the decryption and reverse it. That will save me 48 hours of decryption then re-encryption. How do I do that?