Is it normal for download speed to drop significantly from peak?

[Avalanche]

Hi,

Whenever i download a game the initial mb/s is always high (60mb/s) but this drops down to around 5mb/s after 5 mins.

Speedtest shows that it's not an issue with my provider: https://www.speedtest.net/result/15720564897

I have also tried clearing DL cache and changing server location.

Is this normal? What mb/s would you expect with the above speeds?

Any advice welcome

[Iceira]

Write behind cache can do that on SSD disk.

[Avalanche]

Sorry Iceira i'm a bit of tech moron - what does that mean?

[Ettanin]

Avalanche a écrit :

Sorry Iceira i'm a bit of tech moron - what does that mean?

Your SSD accumulates unwritten data too fast and needs to throttle it to write the data to its cells first.

[Avalanche]

So my larger hard drive is a HDD - upgrading to SSD would improve performance?

[Avalanche]

update - it appears to be an issue with the SATA port the HDD was plugged into - i've switched this and am getting consistent 50mb/s - thanks all.

[Iceira]

hehe , yeah you can find many post i mention port isssue and cable issue, and its typical never that, and ofc then we dont mention it, here it is. ( life is funny that way ) happy new year.