For context:

I’m copying the same files to the same USB drive for comparison from Windows and from my Fedora 41 Workstation.

Around 10k photos.

Windows PC: Dual Core AMD Athlon from 2009, 4GB RAM, old HDD, takes around 40min to copy the files to USB

Linux PC: 5800X3D, 64GB RAM, NVMe SSD, takes around 3h to copy the same files to the same USB stick

I’ve tried chagning from NTFS to exFAT but the same result. What can I do to improve this? It’s really annoying.

  • @WereCatOP
    4•6 hours ago

    This actually sounds like it could be the case, I’ll explore tomorrow as I’m already in bed. Thanks for suggestion.

    • LeafletEnglish
      1•3 minutes ago

      Are you using two separate devices? If so another option could be LocalSend, it allows you to send files over the same network.

      I used it for sending a couple hundred GBs of files. Didn’t take too too long. Also avoids unnecessary writes to flash media.