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
        2•22 hours 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.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•2 days ago

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