create encrypted container

[diieg707]

create encrypted container feature

[RadarNyan]

DiskCryptor isn't really designed to do that, but you can create a VHD and use DiskCryptor to encrypt volumes on mounted VHD, it will work just like any other volumes.

If you don't care too much about performance, you should use VeraCrypt which is designed for this use case, but the way it works will introduce a performance hit, especially on "4K random" read/write speeds:

VeraCrypt (File Container)	DiskCryptor (VHD)

(I have just done those tests on my machine, the VHD/file container is stored on an old SSD encrypted with DiskCryptor, so there will be additional overheads, but it shows the performance difference nonetheless.)

[diieg707]

DiskCryptor isn't really designed to do that, but you can create a VHD and use DiskCryptor to encrypt volumes on mounted VHD, it will work just like any other volumes.

If you don't care too much about performance, you should use VeraCrypt which is designed for this use case, but the way it works will introduce a performance hit, especially on "4K random" read/write speeds:

VeraCrypt (File Container) DiskCryptor (VHD)

(I have just done those tests on my machine, the VHD/file container is stored on an old SSD encrypted with DiskCryptor, so there will be additional overheads, but it shows the performance difference nonetheless.)

after i bought a nvme gen4 i discovered veracrypt sucks on nvme, that's why i'm considering using diskcryptor, well i think your workaround will work just find, thx