[SOLVED] How to speed up transfer speeds?

[snow123123]

perhaps i could have found this information on forums if i could just word it correctly., but when i copy files from HDD to SSD my speeds are like 1.2gb for 2 seconds then drops to understandable 70mbps which it should be. From what i can understand there is some kind of buffer or cache thats helping me ? so my question is how do i increase that time from 2 seconds? i already have 32gb ram .

 

[rgd1101]

problem is the slow hdd. still have to wait for the hdd

 

[Ralston18]

Update your post to include full hardware specs and OS information.

Make and model drives, capacity, how full?

What software do you use to do the copying?

What connectivity are you using?

 

[Grobe]

Instant solution - drop trying to copy many small files. Instead, copy one big file. That will surely make the reported speed higher.

Uhm - I just realized that the term Speed and Throughput may be interchangable, or maybe not ?

 

[mdd1963]

Use SSDs for source and destination? Even ordinary SATA SSDs are capable of 500-550 MB/sec sequential reads/writes...(do not expect that in transferring lots of small files, however, but, do expect 3-4X over what is sustained compared to transfers from/to a spinning hard drive.

The weakest link in a chain is the always the weakest (slowest) point.

 

[USAFRet]

so my question is how do i increase that time from 2 seconds?

You can't.
That is the cache on the target drive filling up.

Performance is dictated by the slowest device in the chain. It is what it is.

And copying thousands of small files WILL take a lot longer than one single file of the same cumulative size.

 

[snow123123]

yeah i understand its low because of the HDD, I tried to make it as clear as possible .... my question is how to increase that cache, is that even possible ?

 

[USAFRet]

yeah i understand its low because of the HDD, I tried to make it as clear as possible .... my question is how to increase that cache, is that even possible ?

No, that cache is physical memory on the drive.

 

[mdd1963]

On the positive side, there occasionally some great deals on a 1 or 2 TB sample of a Crucial MX500....and occasionally, a few great deals on the 860 EVO