Slow copy/move transfer rate

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and am experiencing extremely slow transfer (copy/move) rates between my Ubuntu drive (SSD) and an NTFS 7200rpm HDD (SATAII) that I use as storage. By slow I mean around 1-1.3Mb/s. I haven't0 found any solution on any forum so far.

I have tried both with cp and with rsync and the same rate is observed.

On the same laptop I also have Windows8.1 installed (on a 2nd SSD) and I experience very fast transfer rates to the HDD.

Would anybody have a piece of advice?

Thank you,

Chris

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NTFS support in Linux has improved considerably recently, but it is still surprisingly slow.

While 1.3MB/s seems unusually slow, I could believe it happening if you were copying many small files or something.

At least as a troubleshooting step, you could try formatting the same drive using a different filesystem. But you probably don't want to do that if you have lots of data on it.

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Well, if it's 720rpm, then I'd say that's your problem. ;-)

How is the NTFS volume mounted? If done via /etc/fstab, then try adding "async" to the mount options, or if "sync" is already there, change it to "async", remount your drive and try again.

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