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From: Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Horrible TrueCrypt performance
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:45:41
Message-Id: 20120306214419.GA891@eisen.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Horrible TrueCrypt performance by Alex Schuster
1 On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 03:41:01PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
2 > Whoops! I for got to write an update. Two months ago, I wrote:
3 >
4 > > I have to copy some 100 G of files from one to another USB drive. Both
5 > > are formatted with NTFS, the destination drive already has a truecrypt
6 > > container file where I need to store the data into.
7 > [...]
8 >
9 > The problem was the TrueCrypt container file. What I did instead was to
10 > format the whole drive as a TruCrypt volume, which took about two hours I
11 > think. When I mounted the partition, copying speed was as fast as it
12 > should be.
13
14 Yes, it is also my experience that write performance on NTFS is very
15 suboptimal for bigger files.
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