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Every time when I copy large files from my laptop to any pen drive (USB) on my Ubuntu 14.04, all processes slow down. Even the mouse pointer slows and is stuck. If I open multiple tasks, many of them stop responding. The copying also stops for a long time at 100%, 0 sec remaining.

I am using Windows 8.1 alongside Ubuntu in which there is no problem in copying files.

Useful Hardware Specification of my laptop : HP Compaq 15-s103TX Notebook

  • Processor
    Processor : Intel Core i3 4005U
    Clock Speed : 1.7GHz
    Chipset : HM87
    Cache : 3MB

  • RAM: 4 GB DDR3, 1600 MHz

  • Graphic processor: NVIDIA GeForce 820M

  • Dedicated graphics memory capacity: 2GB

  • System architecture : 64-bit

  • HDD: 1TB SATA 5400 RPM

  • Number of USB 3.0 ports = 1 (same problem here)

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  • Is there encryption or decryption happening? Perhaps you have an encrypted partition for Ubuntu, and that's taking extra processor time on those big data file transfers which isn't happening under Windows. – Marc Dec 26 '15 at 21:53
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    I don't have any encrypted partitions. But I do have all the partitions (except root,home swap. which are in ext4 ) in NTFS format. This is because windows don't recognize ext 4 partitions. All my friends (10-15) who are facing the same problem have NTFS partitions. Is this a problem?? –  Dec 27 '15 at 05:35
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    Consider this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/397249/system-freezes-unresponsive-unusable-when-copying-large-file-to-usb – Marc Dec 27 '15 at 18:31
  • @Marc, if it was slow due to decrypting files on an encrypted partition, it would be slow every time you used a file on that partition, not just when copying the file to USB. – Olathe Jan 02 '16 at 07:35
  • https://lwn.net/Articles/572911/ – chexum Jan 02 '16 at 09:06
  • @Olathe - Perhaps, but you'd notice it a lot more with the occasional very large file than you would with the thousands of very small files. – Marc Jan 02 '16 at 20:20

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Your system configuration looks good it doesn't matter, but check the number of process running and stop the process which occupies more memory.

I propose the best way to copying large files into Pen drive, is to use rsync.

rsync -r source/* destination

it is the efficient way use it.

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