On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 23:24:04 +1000 Basil Chupin wrote: <snipped>
Copying the 7.6 GB file using mc (midnight commander) to the external HDD *all* of which was in ntfs, produced a result of ~27.4MB/s transfer rate.
After I formatted the whole 2TB HDD in ext4, copying the same file using mc produced a transfer rate of ~79MB/s. <snipped> The summary of all the results is that copying to an external USB3 device formatted in ntfs is 34% SLOWER than when copying the identical file to an ext4 formatted partition.
Hi Basil, I admire your persistence, if not your math. :-) 27.4 MB/sec is 34.7% of 79.0 MB/sec. That's almost a 3:1 ratio, ext4:ntfs, so copying to the ntfs formatted device takes almost three times as long. *Now* I 'grok' the impetus of this investigation. It's 65.3% slower, not "34% SLOWER"! Great work, otherwise. Thanks for sharing. regards, Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org