On 29/07/21 10:28, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > 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
Could this be the 512B / 4K sector size problem? If performance is horrible, it could well be a stick / partition mismatch. I never investigated, but if the stick is faking a 512B sector size, so the partition is using 4K blocks aligned on sector 1, it will kill write speed, and in time will kill the stick, too! Cheers, Wol
