On 2013-03-26 23:57 (GMT+1100) Basil Chupin composed:
I use mc (Midnight Commander) 99.99% of the time to manage my files.
What I found - and which is what I am now asking about - is that when, using mc, that when copying files to the *ext4* formatted partition the files where being copied across at ~80MB/s. The files copied over were a mixture of ntfs and ext4 files (which I had copied from a collapsing 32-bit system to my current *Linux* system last year when I replaced the old computer).
However, when I went to copy files to the *ntfs* formatted part of the new external HDD, the best transfer rate I got was ~28MB/s - which looks very much like what I used to get when using USB2!
Be glad you're not stuck needing to copy large media files from an AZBox running 2.6.15 kernel @ 3.2MB/s, like I am. Check out this hdparm -i AZBox output: PIO modes: pio0 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: *mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 * current active mode -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org