On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 03:41:01PM +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Whoops! I for got to write an update. Two months ago, I wrote:
> 
> > I have to copy some 100 G of files from one to another USB drive. Both
> > are formatted with NTFS, the destination drive already has a truecrypt
> > container file where I need to store the data into.
> [...]
> 
> The problem was the TrueCrypt container file. What I did instead was to
> format the whole drive as a TruCrypt volume, which took about two hours I
> think. When I mounted the partition, copying speed was as fast as it
> should be.

Yes, it is also my experience that write performance on NTFS is very
suboptimal for bigger files.
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