Michael and All, Long time ago, on Wednesday, 2021-03-31 12:21:27 +0100, <confabul...@kintzios.com> wrote:
> ... > OK, unless you made a typo and the "minutes" were meant to say seconds, this > is ridiculously slow. Yes, it really were minutes. > You could run some tests to see what is causing the delay. The veracrypt > algos & cipher iterations, the fuse based ntfs-3g, or the USB stick's > controller. > > However if, as I understand it, all other variables are the same and the only > change was to replace your Verbatim 64G USB 2.0 sticks with Philips 128G USB > 3.0 sticks, then the slow writes point to the Philips devices being the > culprit. I just directly formatted one of my two Philips 128G USB 3.0 sticks with "mkntfs" and the write performance without VeraCrypt did not improve. Further searching the web I found that vendors were rarely specifying the writing speeds of their USB sticks at all, and if they did, there was a tendency to exaggerate. See for instance https://www.lifewire.com/sandisk-extreme-pro-solid-state-flash-drive-review-4689258 Checking what SanDisk USB sticks I could easily obtain locally I finally picked two SanDisk Ultra 128 GB USB 3.0 sticks, and it turned out the writing speed was just amazing, with and without VeraCrypt. So basical- ly, USB 3.0 denotes a standard rather than a (write) speed, and it pays to search the web for benchmark tests before buying. Thanks for all the help and support the participants on this list are providing ... :-) Sincerely, Rainer
