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.

  • WereCat@lemmy.worldOP
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    5 hours ago

    I’m using USB 3 10Gbps on my Linux system. The USB stick is USB 3-1.0 and the Windows PC only has USB 2.0 so it should be the slowest but it’s actually several times faster.