Whoops! I for got to write an update. Two months ago, I wrote: > I have to copy some 100 G of files from one to another USB drive. Both > are formatted with NTFS, the destination drive already has a truecrypt > container file where I need to store the data into. > > This is sort of working, but the speed is waayyyy too slow. After about > four hours, only 8 G were copied. [...]
The problem was the TrueCrypt container file. What I did instead was to format the whole drive as a TruCrypt volume, which took about two hours I think. When I mounted the partition, copying speed was as fast as it should be. Wonko