Very slow NTFS wrie preformance

[stan]

I have a machiine that I need to write Giagbyte size files from to a USB
drive. The USB drive is forated as NTFS, and the result needs to be
readable by Windows machies, so I think I am stuck with this design.

The writes start of with anticpated times that re reasonable, but rapidlly
the estimated time climbs to many hours.

What can I do to fix this?

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