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Old 08-25-2012, 01:35 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by SilverAce View Post
You know what? I strongly suspect that the slowness is due to my external hard drive, a Western Digital My Passport, being formatted as NTFS and being accessed through a third-party driver. This benchmark shows that such drivers are FAR slower than HFS+ in dealing with folders with lots of files and subfolders.

So that may be the difference right there.
Another thing could be you might need to defrag your device. On Mac it is not needed but now that you say you are suing an ntfs portable device. I think you might need to defrag your harddrive
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