@idrassi Interesting. I will try this and see if it helps.
When using VeraCrypt with a similar Advanced Format (512e) type drive, I experienced frequent transfer rate stalling and stuttering. It's not something I intend to use going forward. TrueCrypt had identical issues. More notes at this thread: https://sourceforge.net/p/veracrypt/discussion/technical/thread/ab035219/#de07
Neither TrueCrypt nor VeraCrypt seem to properly support Advanced Format drives, neither of them exposes the correct "Bytes per physical sector" value to the operating system. I had a not-great time figuring this out while trying to perform backups. https://vilimpoc.org/blog/2019/11/07/why-are-my-backups-so-slow/ The disk transfer rate would inevitably stall and stutter when using tools like Robocopy or TeraCopy. The only solution that I could find, which is neither cross-platform nor useful for...