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Originally Posted by Dopedangel
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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To do a defrag I think SilverAce will need to mount the drive on a Windows system. IMO defrag on NTFS has always been overrated as a solution to any problem, its a hang over from FAT and something with which to kick the can down the road - maybe Draghi should defrag the Euro
The 'drivers' from Paragon etc should be properly called called emulators. I use file system emulators on a Solaris system for NTFS and HFS+; performance of both is poor compared to native NFS over USB.
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SilverAce - if you've not done so already, I suggest you replicate the library to an HFS+ volume and point Calibre at it, if performance is OK then the problem is almost certainly the use of NTFS, although it could also be a bad drive, there may be OS/X utils available from WD to 'measure' drive health.
If you have access to a 'friendly' windows box, you could put Calibre Portable on it, and point it at the library on your WD USB drive - if its performance is acceptable then its 99.9 % sure its the NTFS on a Mac issue, if its slow then you may have a bad drive - WD have Windows utils for measuring drive health.
On reflection the data is being written to the NTFS volume via one of these so-called 'drivers', so a defrag may have a bigger effect than I would normally expect. Who knows how they manage the drive space.
BR