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