I know Truecrypt used to be well respected, but the developers stopped doing it and now it's getting out of date.
I heard Veracrypt was a fork of TrueCrypt, but it had some serious flaws recently discovered.
What's a guy to do?
Me2
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The TrueCrypt software has been audited by two cooperating organizations, which found no backdoors or significant design flaws. Another researcher recently claimed to have discovered two serious flaws in the Windows driver, but the severity is unclear and I believe that specifics have still not been made public.
VeraCrypt has addressed the minor issues found in the audit, plus a couple of others caused by VeraCrypt's authors; and the "two serious flaws" mentioned above, plus the issues their initial fixes caused.
I'm not sure that the VeraCrypt team is sufficiently vigilant and conscientious, or that their testing is as thorough as needed, given that the software seems more buggy that TrueCrypt 7.1a.
If you're using Windows 8.1 or 10, BitLocker should be available to you. The only 3rd-party utility I'd recommend without more research is Symantec Drive Encryption.
http://buy.symantec.com/estore/clp/productdetails/pk/drive-encryption
chrisjbsc
Windows and BitLocker.
No need to use anything other than the easily used and built in capability (unless you can think of something extra you might need).