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DavidXanatos / DiskCryptor

A fork of the DiskCryptor full disk encryption tool
https://www.diskcryptor.org/
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SSD speeds down to zero while encrypting #64

Closed as-muncher closed 8 months ago

as-muncher commented 1 year ago

diskcryptor 1.2 beta 3 on win11 22h2

I was encrypting my system, but the speeds were getting slower and slower until they stopped. I was only about 20% through encrypting the system. This is an ssd drive. It shouldn't take that long, shouldn't take hours and hours, maybe just 1.5 hours. So what happened? The system became unuseable. I had to write back my clonezilla image and macrium image, but those both wrote back at a very slow speed too. How can I diagnose my system for hardware failures or power failures? Is that maybe what's making my ssd run so slowly? Even after writing back an image, not having veracrypt or diskcryptor installed, system runs rather slowly for an ssd. I remember doing a system encryption using veracrypt 1.23 and getting these slow speeds, where it said it would take 19 hours. But that got fixed by veracrypt 1.25.9. So, did DiskCryptor fry my SSD? If you can shed any light on maybe other reasons or tools that I can use to diagnose my system to see if there are power issues or if it's something else... that would be super. I ran the extended SMART diagnostics and it found nothing.

DavidXanatos commented 1 year ago

Apparently your SSD was very close to dying and the little DC work pushed it the last bit over the edge...

as-muncher commented 1 year ago

It seems to be doing okay now. It could possibly have been that both veracrypt and diskcryptor were installed at the same time, but not sure, though. I don't think so. I've been wondering if it has to do with cpu power-saving states, and would love some advice on how to test my computer for bad power.

as-muncher commented 8 months ago

@DavidXanatos Well, you ended up being right. Strangely, even now, the SMART says it's in good health, and yet it can't write any data to the drive. It can read okay, but not write, and yet SMART says it's in good shape.