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I have two drives atm.

 

Provider: Google Drive

Encryption: No

Drive Creation: I can't remember but a while ago

Storage Chunk size: 10 MB

everything else is the same default settings

 

Provider: Google Drive

Encryption: Yes

Drive Creation: I can't remember one of the newer releases .800~

Storage Chunk size: 20 MB

everything else is the same default settings

 

One note is the encryption drive is currently in a state of chaos where it has errors on it, but i cannot fix the errors partially because half way through the drive dismounts/disconnects and after that the scan fails and i cannot fix it. But i have seen that that original drive i made a while ago has incredible speeds. Close to 300 Mb/s, the encrypted drive gets around 80 Mb/s, I thought maybe it was the encryption issue so i tried to make a new drive no encryption same chunk size. And it only gets about 80 Mb/s as well. I am curious what is causing it to have such good speeds? Is it a case of the errors on the drive so it's overpulling? Just curious. And thought it was an interesting topic of conversation

 

I also just joined that twitter contest so hope to have a free copy of the cloudDrive! Great product as always

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I have two drives atm.

 

Provider: Google Drive

Encryption: No

Drive Creation: I can't remember but a while ago

Storage Chunk size: 10 MB

everything else is the same default settings

 

Provider: Google Drive

Encryption: Yes

Drive Creation: I can't remember one of the newer releases .800~

Storage Chunk size: 20 MB

everything else is the same default settings

 

One note is the encryption drive is currently in a state of chaos where it has errors on it, but i cannot fix the errors partially because half way through the drive dismounts/disconnects and after that the scan fails and i cannot fix it. But i have seen that that original drive i made a while ago has incredible speeds. Close to 300 Mb/s, the encrypted drive gets around 80 Mb/s, I thought maybe it was the encryption issue so i tried to make a new drive no encryption same chunk size. And it only gets about 80 Mb/s as well. I am curious what is causing it to have such good speeds? Is it a case of the errors on the drive so it's overpulling? Just curious. And thought it was an interesting topic of conversation

 

I also just joined that twitter contest so hope to have a free copy of the cloudDrive! Great product as always

 

Could it possibly be you who forgot that you set a higher minimal download size ? :) It greatly increases the speeds (i got 400-800 mbit on mine with minimal download of 20 MB)

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Encryption shouldn't significantly affect the performance of the drive. 

 

It DEFINITELY won't affect the download or upload speeds, either.  

 

That said, Alex (the Developer) has a nice writeup of how the encryption works, if you want to take a look.

http://community.covecube.com/index.php?/topic/1269-full-drive-encryption/

 

 

That said, I would recommend creating two IDENTICAL drives (using the same storage chunk size) and see how that fairs. 

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