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
    8•1 day ago

    For sanity check I’ve tried.

    Bus 004 Device 004 and it’s USB 3.0 as it should be.

    Also I’ve disabled caching and I’m now copying 6 video files at only just 15MB/s (and it’s slowing down, byt the time I went to make screenshot for this post it dropped again). And it’s quite a bit slower than on Windows still.

    • @WereCatOP
      3•1 day ago

      Now down to 9MB/s and still going down

      EDIT: 12 min later…

        • @WereCatOP
          3•1 day ago

          it just finished, 4h for 40GB (6 files)

          • @[email protected]
            5•22 hours ago

            Did the USB drive get excessively warm during this because it looks like the drive is throttling?

            Incidentally, this is why I switched to using external SSDs. A group of 128GB flash drives I had would slowly fall over when I would write 100GB off files to it.

            • @[email protected]
              3•21 hours ago

              This is a really good point. I generally have the opposite experience re: Linux vs windows file handling speed. But I have been throttled before by heat.

              OP, start again tomorrow and try the reverse, and tell us the results.