Those recommendations are for protecting data you want to stay a secret; it would also apply to unlocking this fancy USB drive, as a best practice.
The USB still has advantage in that no one will compel you to unencrypt a drive that they don’t realize is encrypted, which can be a pretty significant advantage depending on who you’re hiding the information from, or why.
https://veracrypt.io/en/Hidden Volume.html
That hides another volume inside another VeraCrypt volume, so it’s obvious it’s not a normal drive
Ah yes, certainly easier and more convenient to boot into a live OS or hidden OS every time you need to mount a hidden volume (per VeraCrypt’s recommended guideline), instead of just using the hardware from OPs post.
you don’t have to boot into some special live OS to mount the hidden volume. It can be mounted just like a normal encrypted volume.
Those recommendations are for protecting data you want to stay a secret; it would also apply to unlocking this fancy USB drive, as a best practice.
The USB still has advantage in that no one will compel you to unencrypt a drive that they don’t realize is encrypted, which can be a pretty significant advantage depending on who you’re hiding the information from, or why.