Drive speeds - can I improve them?

[Modinstaller495]

Hi everyone!

 

I've recently been writing and reading a lot on a usb flash drive and got curious about the write speeds. I realized while writing this post that I'd mixed up my ports and had been using a 2.0 forever instead of the 3.1. Fuck me.

 

I ended up testing all my drives and would like your advice on how to get better speeds. Just got a brand new external HDD too which I also tested.

 

The USB port I'm using on my laptop is 3.2 Gen 1, the port I'm using on my PC is 3.1 Gen 1. Here are the CDM results:

 

PC :

 

Flash drive USB 3.1  https://i.imgur.com/HQpSnxL.png

Ext HDD USB 3.1      https://i.imgur.com/OZ7ndQm.png

HDD                          https://i.imgur.com/mUy3Zmx.png

SSD                           https://i.imgur.com/CfgAX6e.png

 

Laptop:

 

Flash drive USB 3.2  https://i.imgur.com/cHFlIMx.png

Ext HDD USB 3.2      https://i.imgur.com/yldYVi4.png

SSD                           https://i.imgur.com/HUUnTYr.png

 

My laptop's SSD seems pretty performant. My external HDD seems as good as it can get. The flash drive too, considering how old it is (at least 10 years old and still going strong). However, my PC's HDD and SSD seem to be pretty slow. Their health is apparently good.

 

Could anyone give me feedback on these results? Any ways I can improve speeds?

 

Thanks

[ET_Explorer]

There is no way to increase the speed.

[Kedohawyr]

You didn't bother listing any of the models but it's pretty obvious that your PC has a SATA SSD (either 2.5" or M.2 form factor) while the laptop has an NVME SSD in which either (or likely both) the laptop's M.2 drive or the M.2 socket are PCIe Gen 3. In both cases the speeds are exactly what they should be for those interfaces and you can't make them any faster.

 

The HDD speeds are also in line as well, though it's harder to tell since again you gave no model names or numbers. The PC HDDs lower figure would be entirely down to the fact that it's 90% full and it's actually doing really well considering how fragmented such a drive would usually be (is it mainly being used to store large files that aren't modified or replaced frequently?). If you want the HDD to be faster you should offload some of the files and defragment the free space.