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.

  • jollyrogue@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Random peripherals get tested against windows a lot more than Linux, and there are quirks which get worked around.

    I would suggest an external SSD for any drive over 32GB. Flash drives are kind of junk in general, and the external SSDs have better controllers and thermals.

    Out of curiosity, was the drive reformatted between runs, and was a Linux native FS tried on the flash drive?

    The Linux native FS doesn’t help migrate the files between Windows and Linux, but it would be interesting to see exFAT or NTFS vs XFS/ext4/F2FS.

  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    3 months ago

    I haven’t had this problem. It could be the filesystem you’re using? Sometimes Linux gets weird with Windows filesystems. Try formatting it to ext4.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    3 months ago

    I find that it’s around the same, except linux waits on updating the UI until all write buffers are flushed, whereas Windows does not.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      except linux waits on updating the UI until all write buffers are flushed, whereas Windows does not.

      I wish that were true here. But when I copy to USB the file manager ( XFCE/Thunar ) shows the copy is finished and closes the copy notifications way way before it’s even half done, when I copy movies to a stick.
      I use fast USB 3 stick on USB 3 port, and I don’t get anywhere near the write speed the stick manufacturer claims. So I always open a terminal and run sync, to see when it’s actually finished.

      I hate to the extreme when systems don’t account for write cache before claiming a copy is finished, it’s such an ancient problem we’ve had since the 90’s, and I find it embarrassing that such problems still exist on modern systems.