Soldato
When transfering to any hard drive, USB stick or even within my laptop my transfer speeds go mental, full speed and then to zero and so on, anyone else have this or fix this?
Windows 10 transfer speeds - maximum to zero to maximum and so on.
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Soldato
I have in the past but don't seem to with my current rig but only for external drives, internal is usually ok, assuming I haven't got a file that needs to be duplicated in the new location rather than moved.
Some of it is down to the type of files being sent and some of it is down to the speed of the devices sending data. My SSD's transfer to my external hard drives faster and with more stable speeds (constant 100+ MB/s) than my old hard drives (could drop to around 30MB/s, sometimes less) did. USB sticks are usually pretty useless unless you pay for a better quality one with higher write speeds so that's more likely due to the stick than your pc.
I assume you've set the properties you can set for external drives such as better performance ticked as well.
Some of it is down to the type of files being sent and some of it is down to the speed of the devices sending data. My SSD's transfer to my external hard drives faster and with more stable speeds (constant 100+ MB/s) than my old hard drives (could drop to around 30MB/s, sometimes less) did. USB sticks are usually pretty useless unless you pay for a better quality one with higher write speeds so that's more likely due to the stick than your pc.
I assume you've set the properties you can set for external drives such as better performance ticked as well.
^^That^^ It depends on the size of the files being transferred, more specifically lots of small'ish files will hit an I/O, Windows, or file system limit before a bandwidth limit.
IIRC Windows built in file copy uses a single thread for file transfers so you can hit a CPU bottleneck, then there's having to write data to the journal (a log of the filesystem changes), and finally if you're transferring to a HDD or USB you can be bottlenecked by the input queue getting filled up (low IOPS).
IIRC Windows built in file copy uses a single thread for file transfers so you can hit a CPU bottleneck, then there's having to write data to the journal (a log of the filesystem changes), and finally if you're transferring to a HDD or USB you can be bottlenecked by the input queue getting filled up (low IOPS).