Why is copying to USB stick on Linux so damn slow?
Why is copying to USB stick on Linux so damn slow?
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.
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rsync -aP <source>/ <dest>
I find it faster and more reliable than most GUI explorers
-avPI do
-azPfor compressionthat'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.
compression is good when copying over the network, but would just waste cpu time when copying to a usb stick.