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.

  • nomecksEnglish
    4·
    6 hours ago

    How are you copying them? It could potentially be faster to use rsync. You can try mounting with noatime as a flag as well.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 hours ago

      noatime

      Oh boy, yes I remember I used to disable that shit ages ago in fstab, that’s quite annoying that’s still necessary!!!
      How do you do that for USB sticks?

      • nomecksEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        I’m pretty sure you can just mount it with mount and specify noatime