Hey Sup Forums,
I just purchased a Seagate 2Tb Desktop SSHD today to upgrade from my old 5400rpm Seagate hard drive. I've been trying to transfer files over from the old drive to the new, but the speeds keeping dropping.
It seems to start by moving files from 80+Mb/s for about 30 seconds or so before dropping down to 0.5-2Mb/s for the remainder of the transfer. What is the problem here?
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did you connect both HDDs via SATA?
are there lots of small files? these transfer much slower than a few big files
Yes, both with SATA3 cables.
I suppose there are a lot of small files when transferring games, but then there's >pic related, a big video file.
does it occur again if you stop & resume the transfer?
defrag your HDD before moving files. If files are fragmented, you lose a lot of transfer speed while the disk heads have to move all over the disk to get read all the parts of a single file, which of course is a huge waste of time.
Paused the movie transfer, took a good half a minute before I could resume it, still going the same speed.
The old hard drive isn't very fragmented. Even so, when I tried to move Rainbow Six Siege (which is over 18gb) it was starting fast and then becoming slow. I deleted it entirely off the old drive and instead began to download it from Uplay onto the sshd, and it is still being just as slow.
Also, it looks like the download completely stopped for a good few moments, and Uplay thought my internet dropped.
uplay might use a temp folder on C:\ so its basically the same setup as transferring
might be faulty, try in a different pc / take it back with warranty
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Install Gentoo.
>sshd
You could just buy a gun and a pack of bullets and shoot yourself.
I had a similar issue with a WD drive, turns out it was a shitty SATA cable causing it, if all else fails try using a different cable.
it buffers the writes into the ssd portion to begin with, then tanks once the write buffer runs out and it has to start writing out the buffer to the hdd portion, in addition to the data you're writing
while true, should not justify 2MB/sec speed
>Zootopia 2016 1080p HDRip x264 AC3-JYK
>x264
>not using superior in every way x265
off yourself faggot
it's not impossible if it's tons of tiny files
seek latency is pretty shit on 5400rpm hdd's
>sshd
>seagate
>zootopia
kill yourself faggot
Inside Out > Zootopia
>your opinions
>tfw you didn't fall for the SSHD meme
Return it OP.
Every manufacturer uses shit parts in those things because there's no real-world scenario where they make any sense for use, so they're bottom-of-the-bin trash sold to people who don't understand caching and buy into marketing hype. The only thing they're good at is dying.
If you want a lot of storage, get an HDD. If you want fast storage, get a SSD. If you want both fast AND a lot of capacity, go on ebay, snag an LSI, and build a RAID10 array. Can't afford it? Well that's the cost of getting both worlds.
This "magical mix of SSHD" is snake oil and nothing more.
Put your SATA controller into AHCI mode.
Also
>Falling for SSHD bait
> all
That's the cache filling up and flushing. Not a problem, working as intended. Also the SSD part is only filled with often used files and not used as cache.
>SSHD
Why?
Get a refund and get an SSD + HDD.