On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 04:17:06PM -0400, Curtis Maurand via Dng wrote:
> I just mounted up an NTFS mount on my Ascii desktop.  It loaded up fairly
> quickly.  Any other operation such as opening a folder with a lot of entries
> took a very long time.  This is on a Seagate Baracuda 1TB plugged into a
> generic drive dock and connected by USB 3.0.
>
> I would say that the NTFS driver is not a speedy thing.  You might try the
> noatime option and see if that speeds things up.
>
> --Curtis

Unfortunately, noatime in fstab did nothing for me. It may have cut
time from 10 to 8 hours, but not sure.

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Haines Brown