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Could my hard drive be a bottleneck when downloading games? I have a 500Mbit/s connection.

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I am currently re-downloading csgo on my hard drive and realized it says I'm downloading at 13-20MB/s, I know this could be because of the steam but I believe it's not, since it said I had a peak of 72MB/s for some reason and usually I download games at 54-57MB/s.

Could my hard drive be a bottleneck maybe?

 

edit : I have a 7200 rpm drive.

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1 hour ago, Guy0904 said:

I am currently re-downloading csgo on my hard drive and realized it says I'm downloading at 13-20MB/s, I know this could be because of the steam but I believe it's not, since it said I had a peak of 72MB/s for some reason and usually I download games at 54-57MB/s.

Could my hard drive be a bottleneck maybe?

 

edit : I have a 7200 rpm drive.

Even 5400 rpm laptop drives will hit around 100 MB/s, so I highly doubt your harddrive is the cause unless it is seriously broken.

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7 hours ago, Blue4130 said:

Even 5400 rpm laptop drives will hit around 100 MB/s, so I highly doubt your harddrive is the cause unless it is seriously broken.

If it's an smr drive that's close to being full it's possible.

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If games have to patch files/unpack, then it's entirely possible for a hard drive to be the limiting factor. Sequential speeds don't really mean diddly dick when updating games.

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