No, all drives are local SATA attached drives.
Encrypting natively using command line gpg in cmd.exe is much faster as it takes around 3-4 seconds to do encryption. Yet it’s still much slower than Linux version (or Cygwin version on Windows). Cryptographic acceleration when using AES makes those implementations as fast as read/write speed of SSD.
I’m using gpg for backups so I will have to use command line Cygwin version as encrypting few gigabytes of data takes a long time otherwise.