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