Bottle Necking.

[captain_cereal_hands]

I feel like I'm getting bottle necking between my drives or maybe I'm just expecting too much. So I have these 3 drives.

 

Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive

Samsung - 960 PRO 512GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive

Seagate - Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

 

and this motherboard.

 

ASRock - Fatal1ty X99X Killer ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard

 

So I use the 960 as my Boot Drive and the 850 as a Steam Drive and the Seagate as mass storage.

 

I went to copy a 20Gb folder from my 960 to my Seagate and it started out at like 1.3Gbs but quickly dropped to 140Mbs. Now I know the Seagate is much slower but 140Mbs seemed a touch slow. 

 

So does 140Mbs constant seem about right?

 

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

 

2 minutes ago, captain_cereal_hands said:

I went to copy a 20Gb folder from my 960 to my Seagate and it started out at like 1.3Gbs but quickly dropped to 140Mbs. Now I know the Seagate is much slower but 140Mbs seemed a touch slow. 

Thats because of caching, thats fully normal.

 

If you want faster for a storage drive you can replace it with a ssd, but thats fully normal.

[captain_cereal_hands]

I wasn't sure just how much to expect from non SSDs these days.

 

Thanks

 

 

[captain_cereal_hands]

One other quick thing I'm reinstalling Windows on the 960 should I let the Windows installer handle wiping it or should I do it?