761GB File Transfer

[ImBleu]

So this is what happens when you buy a new HDD just for Steam, and attempt to move your Steam Library folder over. My Transfer speeds are ranging from 150mb/s to 5kb/s but damn. Started out with just over 500,000 Items discovered to transfer over.

 

@Captain_WD I'm putting these WD Drives to test 24+ Hours at max RPM.

 

 

 

 

Some glory shots

[REX.exe]

good luck my friend...good luck.

[1Scotty1]

I wanted a separate HDD for Steam also... my games take up roughly 750-800Gb also... but my download speeds are a b*tch... 300kb/s powa!

[ImBleu]

I wanted a separate HDD for Steam also... my games take up roughly 750-800Gb also... but my download speeds are a b*tch... 300kb/s powa!

 

I bought this 3TB Just for Steam, Origin & Uplay. I;m leaving my Boot SSD and 1TB for more important stuff.

[Blebekblebek]

it's the small size files that kills it

 

doesn't matter what brands, any HDD will get crippled when transfering so much files.

[1Scotty1]

I bought this 3TB Just for Steam, Origin & Uplay. I;m leaving my Boot SSD and 1TB for more important stuff.

I have a boot SSD too, but cant download Steam/Origin/Uplay libraries even if I wanted to... dem speeds are killing me

[Cobus]

Wow haha GLHF with that, I have done the same earlier this year and it was such a tedious process  :lol:

It's definitely worth it though

[Captain_WD]

~snip~

 

 

That would be a dangerous, exciting and long trip for your data. I hope everything is fine and you system doesn't bug out or jam as the simple copy/paste operation often does that during massive movements like this one. 

Do report back how the drive handles this in terms of noise, speed, temperature and consistency.

 

Captain_WD.

[Thony]

Wow thats a lot !

Im just imagining Linus's solution for their beast server (72cores and butt ton of ssds in raid)

[Captain_WD]

So how did it go?

[bsbuilds]

Seriously, you can't tease us without coming back with final numbers.

How long did it take?

Did it succeed?

[ImBleu]

So how did it go?

 

Seriously, you can't tease us without coming back with final numbers.

How long did it take?

Did it succeed?

 

I'm a teaser

 

Looks pretty successful to me. It didn't take the day it quoted me and was done in less than 12 hours ( I was asleep when it finished ) but I certainly could say I've stress tested my latest WD addition to my family.The drive got reasonably hot, getting to 37*C, but I put that down to my new case as I switched from my 750D which had fans pressed against the drive cage to my Fractal Define S which has passive cooling only. 

 

Noticed no difference in speed or anything, but I wasn't planning. All I wanted was to have a HDD purely for games.

 

As for Noise / Speed, it seemed pretty constant. Obviously with the many smaller files it slowed down a bit but it was reasonable. Never really heard the drive, to be honest.

 

* LTT forums wont let me use .png images apparently, so I'll add images when I wake up. 1am atm.

[Jarsky]

Thats quite normal for healthy drives

It wouldn't have been able to estimate the time accurately because of the all those small files fluxuating the speed - but the majority of the actual data size is typically large textures which would jump straight up over 100MB/s

 

I just copied 600GB off my WD Red to a RAID0 and only took just over an hour

[Captain_WD]

~snip~

 

I'm glad everything went fine. 37C is well within the recommended operating temperatures so I wouldn't worry about that. Transferring lots of smaller files usually decreases the speed of a drive compared to a single or a just a few larger ones of the same combined size. Congrats and enjoy the gaming HDD.

 

Captain_WD.