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I always use all my hard drives only between 75% and 80% of their capacities (after having formatting them), I leave the rest to allow windows to properly perform maintenance on my hard drives.
I would like to create a veracrypt container of 99 GB (I do not want to encrypt the entire partition or the entire hard disk) in a 100 GB hard drive, is it dangerous to damage my hard drive? Will my datas be more at a risk than if i create a veracrypt container of 80 GB?
Is it risky to fill a veracrypt container to the limit of its capacity?
What are the worst mistakes to avoid with a veracrypt container?
Gabriel P
Posted 2018-12-17T23:05:40.940
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– angelofdev – 2018-12-17T23:42:47.573Why are you against using FDE? – Ramhound – 2018-12-18T00:12:25.487
I don't think it is risky. The 80% watermark is a filesystem management thing, as when filesystems get full they tend to fragment and take a big performance hit. This probably does not apply as much when using a file as a block device - but you might want to defragment the drive once the file is created and avoid creating it as a sparse file. – davidgo – 2018-12-18T10:44:20.043
Somehow, i am under the impression that FDE bring a higher probability of mechanical problems in the hdd, and associate the hdd with a specific hardware config (if my mobo die then i lost all my datas) , and with a container, i can copy the entire file to another hdd on my backup server, then (when needed) i open both container and synchronise them with freefilesync. – Gabriel P – 2018-12-18T18:52:10.503
I agree that "as when filesystems get full they tend to fragment and take a big performance hit" .I think that i will keep on not using more than 75% to 80%, for safety and for a higher performance. But then, if a container is the same as a hdd, i wonder if i should also not use more than 75% to 80% of the capacity of the container?, wich would mean 80% of a container the size of 80% of the size of my hdd (100 GB), 100GB x 80% (80 GB) x 80% = 64GB, i loose 33% of the capacity of the hdd, but it looks like the safest way – Gabriel P – 2018-12-18T19:05:32.073