Slow copy Speed? Yes? No?

[kris44dad]

I copy video files from one drive to another [D: to F: 1-3 GB in size] and the process seems on the slow side. After the initial spurt, the transfer rate settles down to about 60MB/s.  I'm thinking it should be faster. I'm using an Asus® PRIME Z270-P Intel® Z270 based chipset, ATX Motherboard.  (SATA III)

 

Assuming it should be faster where do I go from here?

Could my SATA cables be crap?

Could these two particular drives be sharing a controller slowing everything, and how would I know?

 

I've included the benchmarks for both drives, to see if it is the drives that are the bottleneck.

[Electronics Wizardy]

what models of drive are these?

 

These speeds seem fine for hdds.

[kris44dad]

+- ST2000DM006-2DM164 (/hdd/0)
|  +- Temperature    :       36       35       36 (/hdd/0/temperature/0)
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+- WDC WD4002FYYZ-01B7CB1 (/hdd/1)
|  +- Temperature    :       42       42       42 (/hdd/1/temperature/0)
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+- WDC WDS100T2B0A-00SM50 (/hdd/2)
|  +- Host Writes    :    13959    13959    13959 (/hdd/2/data/0)
|  +- Host Reads     :     9773     9773     9773 (/hdd/2/data/1)
 

One is the SSD boot drive...btw.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, kris44dad said:

+- WDC WD4002FYYZ-01B7CB1 (/hdd/1)
|  +- Temperature    :       42       42       42 (/hdd/1/temperature/0)
|
+- WDC WDS100T2B0A-00SM50 (/hdd/2)
|  +- Host Writes    :    13959    13959    13959 (/hdd/2/data/0)
|  +- Host Reads     :     9773     9773     9773 (/hdd/2/data/1)
 

seems fine, esp for hdds that are half full.

[kris44dad]

Thanks.

 

[Roswell]

If these were SSDs I'd say there's definitely something afoot. Mechanical drives on the other hand can only go about as fast as what you're benching. Totally normal.

[NineEyeRon]

If you want faster speeds buy larger SSDs or do what we used to in the 2000s and just go make a cup of tea...