Very slow USB 3.0 data transfer on Ubuntu 11.10

[Christopher Beynon]

2011/10/17 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
> On 17 October 2011 14:52, Christopher Beynon
> <christopher.beynon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Computer: ZOTAC ZBOX AD02 (AMD E-350 APU Platform) with two USB 3.0 ports.
>> Ubuntu 11.10.
>> Two external harddisks (FAT 32 resp. NTFS) in USB 3.0 enclosures.
>> When copying between to two harddisks, I get only transfer rates of
>> about 6 MB/s.
>> With Windows 7 with the same setup (dual boot) I get transfer rates of
>> about 80 MB/s.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> Sounds very odd. Perhaps some kernel driver issue. Can you try testing
> with a couple of non-Ubuntu distros booted from LiveCD, such as MEPIS
> and PCLinuxOS or Fedora?
>
> --
Thank you for the answer, I will try that in the next days.
Is there a possibility to blacklist a driver to narrow down the problem?