When moving a large amount of content to another drive, is it faster to move in bulk or pieces?

[pigstriker]

I was moving about 100 gb of stuff from my ssd to my external hard drive and I noticed that while initially it moved files at 300-400 mb/s, it eventually slowed to 16-20 mb/s. My question is: would I have been better off moving it in pieces rather than all at once? Or is there something wrong with my hard drive?

 

[rgd1101]

What the speed of the ext HDD(5400rpm/7200rpm)? What the connection to the ext HDD?
Sound like the initial was cache and once it full it back down to the normal speed.

 

[pigstriker]

it's 5400 rpm and 3.0 connection. So would it have been faster if I moved my files in pieces rather than all at once?

 

[rgd1101]

It will still do the same thing. the HDD can't keep up with the SSD.
You can either do a large batch. or smaller batch, but will will come out the same. smaller batch probably take long as you will have to wait then start another one.