Very slow USB 3.0 data transfer on Ubuntu 11.10

[Nicolae Ghimbovschi]

Hi,

It could be due to slow NTFS write IO. The Linux NTFS driver is not
very efficient for high IO.

You could try to copy to a fat32 or ext3,4 or any other Linux
supported filesystem, and see the difference.


On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 16:52, 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?
>
> Regards
> Christopher
>
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