Does TrueCrypt use parallelization? Yes. Increase in encryption/decryption speed is directly proportional to the number of cores/processors your computer has. For more information, please see the chapter Parallelization in the documentation. Can data be read from and written to an encrypted volume/drive as fast as if the drive was not encrypted? Yes, since TrueCrypt uses pipelining and parallelization. For more information, please see the chapters Pipelining
and Parallelization
. Does TrueCrypt support hardware-accelerated encryption? Yes. For more information, please see the chapter Hardware Acceleration
. Is it possible to boot Windows installed in a hidden TrueCrypt volume? Yes, it is (as of TrueCrypt 6.0). For more information, please see the section Hidden Operating
System
. Will I be able to mount my TrueCrypt volume on any computer? Yes, TrueCrypt volumes are independent of the operating system. You will be able to mount your TrueCrypt volume on any computer on which you can run TrueCrypt (see also the question ” Can I use TrueCrypt in Windows if I do not have administrator privileges?
”). Can I unplug or turn off a hot-plug device (for example, a USB flash drive or USB hard drive) when there is a mounted TrueCrypt volume on it? Before you unplug or turn off the device, you should always dismount the TrueCrypt volume in TrueCrypt first, and then perform the ‘ Eject
’ operation if available (right-click the device in the ‘ Computer
’ or ‘ My Computer
’ list), or use the ‘ Safely Remove Hardware
’ function (built in Windows, accessible via the taskbar notification area). Otherwise, data loss may occur.
