Hello.
I was bored today and decided to conduct a few benchmarks on my Lenovo 3000 g530 laptop with Linux/Vista. I wanted to compare their copy speeds from a couple different filesystems. I discovered that ntfs writing is even FASTER under Gnu/Linux, and even faster on ext2 filesystem vs. ntfs filesystem. What I did was copy the linux kernel source directory (roughly 478mb and 33000plus files(object files, etc.)) in each OS and from ntfs->ntfs on Vista/ then on Gnu/linux from ntfs->ntfs, ntfs->ext2, and ext2->ext2. I found:
from ntfs->ntfs on Vista took about 7.5 minutes.
from ntfs->ntfs on Gnu/Linux took about 5minutes 45 seconds.
from ntfs->ext2 on Gnu/Linux took about 3minutes 32 seconds.
from ext2->ext2 on Gnu/Linux took 20 seconds to copy 33000 files, 478mb!! Wow!
So, I'd say that ext2 is WAY faster than ntfs and that ntfs writes are faster under linux than windows. I did notice that the size of the directory created on the ext2 filesystem is slightly larger (510Mb) though.
Linux wins on copy speeds!!