Slow write speeds to HDD

[Haux890]

Recently my write speeds are really bad my internet is fine but is taking like 20 mins to write or install 40mb updates.

[Rakvere Rambo]

What is your download speed

[Supafly]

Try running Crystal Disk Mark to see the sort of speeds it doing.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Messaggio originale di Haux:

Recently my write speeds are really bad my internet is fine but is taking like 20 mins to write or install 40mb updates.

If a drive can not write 40mb in 15 minutes, it would be long gone already.

[Iceira]

disk size and free space left ?
laptop ?

ps.
and are you aware of the diffrence in Pre-allcation and DL and wite to disk under download sections and use steam option show Mbit/s and not MB/s

and RPM harddisk , some defrag app do have consolidate free space ( SSD dont have to )

and assume that internet speed is fine.

[Haux890]

It says i have plenty of space on the hard drive (170gb free).
I get about 30mbs or above from my provider, steam only downloads 6mbs but downloads about 30gb in 2 hours roughly, so internet is fine.
Its only on updates when it is "unpacking" it takes long.
Not sure if that just how long "unpacking" takes or if i have a problem with my HDD

[crunchyfrog]

Messaggio originale di Haux:

It says i have plenty of space on the hard drive (170gb free).
I get about 30mbs or above from my provider, steam only downloads 6mbs but downloads about 30gb in 2 hours roughly, so internet is fine.
Its only on updates when it is "unpacking" it takes long.
Not sure if that just how long "unpacking" takes or if i have a problem with my HDD

Steam puts the measurement in BYTES per minute, not bits, so 6 is great for you (as you multiply by 8). Just thought I'd point that out.

Unpacking varies from game to game as they're all structured differently. ALl you can do is monitor disc usage while it's doing this and see what's happening. If when your download speed dips off, your disk usage should be toddling away nicely. If it's not, then there's something else afoot.

[Iceira]

2tb harddisk with windows 10% rule is 200gb and lesser will be reduce speed.
this is know by many sense win7 i think that OS pop up a warning about it.

it matter of understand disk use more time looking for free space, many dont belive it, i dont care, i can feel it on every disk i had. and so do others. it has consequence for unpacking and any other disk I/O task. ( problem is disk with more room 3-4TB 10% seem to be 5% and still same last 200gb it get reduces speed ) this is not a joke, funny enough we never see complains then disk is new and empty.

[Grambo]

It boggles my mind that Steam hasn't addressed this horrific code yet. This is a persistent problem, related only to their disc management system, and it is both pervasive and consistent.

I have a TB free on my 2 TB drive, and still it takes like 40 minutes to unpack a 200MB file. There is no excuse for this... none. Epic doesn't have this issue... GoG doesn't have this issue... my guess is that it is related to the size of my steam library, and that their system literally ♥♥♥♥♥ itself much like iTunes did if you got too many files for it to manage.

[encha]

lol

[Money Gainer]

Messaggio originale di Haux890:

Recently my write speeds are really bad my internet is fine but is taking like 20 mins to write or install 40mb updates.

defrag the hdd and it should work

edit: if its a brand new hdd i would replace it if its been used for a while do as stated above

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Messaggio originale di bruh ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.com:

lol

Messaggio originale di 井里跳出一只猫:

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Posting for the Steam Badge doesn't exist anymore.
Read it next time. "Search the Steam Discussions" not post.

[Grambo]

I can say that defragging does nothing for me. Done *everything* that I can think of. Defrag, cache optimization, cleanup, space freeing, drivers... literally everything I can imagine. This is Steam's code... I don't see how it could be anything else. Again, none of the other similar services act this way... not Epic, not GoG... none of them.

[Muppet among Puppets]

What game? Steam did not do that to my drive

[Grambo]

Every game. If I have a download for a game, regardless of which one, the download itself will take seconds (I have gigabit), but the "installation" will take as much as an hour or more depending on the DL size.

To be even more damning, I can install the EXACT SAME GAME on GoG, and it takes seconds to patch. Ditto Epic Store. Given this, I can only conclude it is the Steam system.