Some days ago, in this question, I explained some minor issues that I was experiencing with a HDD that I mount using the /etc/fstab file. To partially solve the issue I decided to change how I was mounting the HDD from (mounting way 1):
/dev/sda7 /media/data ntfs user,nosuid,exec,nodev 0 0
to (mounting way 2):
/dev/sda7 /media/data ntfs-3g uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0022,sync,auto,rw 0 0
Although now I have some of the problems of the other post solved, the HDD is really slow now. For instance, copying a movie from the Ubuntu hard drive to the mounted one now performs at 50kB/sec if it has been mounted as in (1) while mounting the HDD as in (2), it goes up to 40MB/sec. This issue only affects copying between hard drives. This is, the /media/data drive can copy content within it at 40MB/sec regardless of how it is mounted.
Any idea on why this might be?
syncoption essential? – steeldriver Jul 03 '16 at 23:10syncoption and seeing if that works for you – steeldriver Jul 04 '16 at 18:55