Why does does the transfer speed decrease?

[Elijah Kamski]

Hey guys, why does my transfer speed decrease when I'm copying files and all?

Btw, moving from an SSD to a HDD.

 

Thanks,
Eli

[Elijah Kamski]

Also how can I solve it?

I really hate this as i transfer a large amount of files which are in themselves large.

[Applefreak]

3 minutes ago, Elijah Kamski said:

Also how can I solve it?

I really hate this as i transfer a large amount of files which are in themselves large.

What HDD model is it and how much data are you transferring at a time? Larger files or small ones (images)?

[Helpful Tech Witch]

its probably when the dram chache on the ssd runs out

 

[Spotty]

26 minutes ago, Elijah Kamski said:

Btw, moving from an SSD to a HDD.

You're always going to be limited by the slowest drive you are reading from or writing to, which in this case would be the HDD. 145MB/s seems about what you would get for a HDD write speed. The faster bit at the start would be when it is being cached.

[Elijah Kamski]

On 2/2/2022 at 10:48 AM, Applefreak said:

What HDD model is it and how much data are you transferring at a time? Larger files or small ones (images)?

Model:



Large files, 5GB+ videos.

[Elijah Kamski]

On 2/2/2022 at 11:05 AM, Helpful Tech Wiard said:

its probably when the dram chache on the ssd runs out

 

Makes sense, thanks for the info!

Do you recommend any good M.2 SSD's that have big DRAM caches on a budget?

[Elijah Kamski]

On 2/2/2022 at 11:11 AM, Spotty said:

You're always going to be limited by the slowest drive you are reading from or writing to, which in this case would be the HDD. 145MB/s seems about what you would get for a HDD write speed. The faster bit at the start would be when it is being cached.

Ah okay, makes sense.

Got any recommendations on M.2 SSD's maybe?

Thanks,

Eli

[Helpful Tech Witch]

2 hours ago, Elijah Kamski said:

Makes sense, thanks for the info!

Do you recommend any good M.2 SSD's that have big DRAM caches on a budget?

Not really, cache is standardly 1gb per tb of storage iirc, it doesn’t really get bigger without a bigger drive

[Elijah Kamski]

On 2/4/2022 at 1:42 AM, Helpful Tech Wiard said:

Not really, cache is standardly 1gb per tb of storage iirc, it doesn’t really get bigger without a bigger drive

RIp XD