[ale] Copy time for USB ext HDD

[David A. Merritt]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, Scott wrote:

> Trying out an external USB HDD enclosure to copy files from my system
> and it seems to be a lot slower than I had thought. I have a new Seagate
> 500GB SATA in the enclosure and I started to do a copy of my music
> library consisting of about 76GB flac files. I started at 16:24
> yesterday and it is now at 60GB at 12:44. Is that right? Math was never
> a strong point for me.

How is the disk you are copying *to* formatted?  If it is an NTFS-formatted
drive, this is typical.  The write-capable file system for NTFS is a
FUSE layer and is very slow.

Just a thought.
-dam

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David A. Merritt
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