NTFS write speed really slow (<15MB/s)
- by Zulakis
I got a new Seagate 4TB harddrive formatted with ntfs using
parted /dev/sda
> mklabel gpt
> mkpart pri 1 -1
mkfs.ntfs /dev/sda1
When copying files or testing writespeed with dd, the max writespeed I can get is about 12MB/s. The harddrive should be capable of atleast 100MB/s.
top shows high cpu usage for the mount.ntfs process. The system has a AMD dualcore.
This is the output of parted /dev/sda unit s print:
Model: ATA ST4000DM000-1F21 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 7814037168s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 2048s 7814035455s 7814033408s pri
The used kernel is 3.5.0-23-generic.
The ntfs-3g versions I tried are ntfs-3g 2012.1.15AR.1 (ubuntu 12.04 default) and the newest version ntfs-3g 2013.1.13AR.2. When formatted with ext4 I get good write speeds with about 140MB/s.
How can I fix the writespeed?