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Moving Files. SSD or CPU?

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The drives will be the main factors. The CPU plays a role, but transfers will still be bottlenecked by the drives being used. 

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For as long as I remember I've always thought moving files on your PC was down to the CPU's performance not the drive. However, now I'm unsure. If I have an SSD and a HDD with the same processor, is there going to be any difference moving a 1GB file from one location to another. Or would a different processor be the reason for change in speed? It seems quite obvious but hey! :)

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The drives will be the main factors. The CPU plays a role, but transfers will still be bottlenecked by the drives being used. 

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2 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

The drives will be the main factors. The CPU plays a role, but transfers will still be bottlenecked by the drives being used. 

I recall slightly a video where Linus was trying to reach transfer speeds of 1Gbit a second, and changing the CPU was the fix for this. Was this because the drive was bottlenecked?

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8 minutes ago, K0MP4CT said:

I recall slightly a video where Linus was trying to reach transfer speeds of 1Gbit a second, and changing the CPU was the fix for this. Was this because the drive was bottlenecked?

That was because he was using SMB Multichannel (think link aggregation -- dividing a transfer and sending it over multiple lines). Over a single 10gigabit connection it wouldn't be an issue. 

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3 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

That was because he was using SMB Multichannel (think link aggregation -- dividing a transfer and sending it over multiple lines). Over a single 10gigabit connection it wouldn't be an issue. 

That's the one! I feel like we're going to start going very into detail with things I don't understand here...but thank you for the replies :)

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