| Try copying with Terminal, "cp" or "cpmac" (cpmac for copying also resource forks over). Finder isn't the most efficient with dealing with everything, and copying operations are no different from samba in the sense that for both the underlying system works, but Finder is sometimes slowed down or buggier.
I suspect you'll get way faster speeds with command line copying.
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