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.

  • Eager EagleEnglish
    16•1 month ago

    rsync -aP <source>/ <dest>

    I find it faster and more reliable than most GUI explorers

        • @[email protected]English
          3•1 month ago

          compression is good when copying over the network, but would just waste cpu time when copying to a usb stick.

        • Eager EagleEnglish
          2•1 month ago

          that’s good if your data is not already compressed, otherwise is more of a CPU waste

          images, videos, audio, game assets, standardized data files, and a bunch of other things are likely already compressed.