Is 32-50MB/s Read Speed fine for a 3.5" Internal HDD (Whilst downloading a game)

[200iqplayerow]

So I was downloading a 1.77Gb update for fortnite and my internet was downloading it faster than my HDD could read it as you can see in the image below I had downloaded over half of the update but the luancher only says 33% complete , is it being restricted by Fortnite? Because the write speeds seem to be fine.

My HDD - Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

https://i.imgur.com/AnH3Cga.png

 

[Lutfij]

How old s the HDD? How many partitions does that drive have? How much free space does the drive have(in each partition, if there are multiple partitions on it)? What sort of a platform are you working off of? System's with multiple background apps can be bogged down.

 

[dudeman509]

It's probably reading and writing back out to disk at the same time. The write speed shown there makes no sense for a platter drive.

This is typical for Steam, even on SSDs. It really depends on the game itself too - some are slower than others to update (I suspect they have a lot of extraction or lots of little files to write out/update).

 

[200iqplayerow]

It's probably reading and writing back out to disk at the same time. The write speed shown there makes no sense for a platter drive.

This is typical for Steam, even on SSDs. It really depends on the game itself too - some are slower than others to update (I suspect they have a lot of extraction or lots of little files to write out/update).

Thank you for your answer, I assume there would be a lot of small textures etc being installed.