My computer takes up to an hour to allocate disk space. Is this normal?

[LucaTheFort]

I just got a new laptop less than five hours ago. I downloaded steam than proceeded to get gta. It has been allocating disk space for about an hour and it is still not done. My old desktop didn't take this long. The new laptop has 1tb of hard drive storage and 128mb SSD. My old desktop had 512mb of hard drive space but it went faster. Is this due to my computer or my steam settings?

[Iceira]

well other then MB is GB, but you need to understand laptop in balance mode is reduce speed
you most use Full performance in power scematic, and it dont help then disk is apox under 20 to 10% free space, this is know by harddisk experts it will take long to dump data.

and this is not the first allocate disk space. issue on steam and many mixup desktop pc with laptop ( huge mistake )

and many harddisk at laptop is not so fast as many think. ( but atleast you already notice this. )

ps.
there is actual nothing you can do, other then minor settings, watchout for big swapfile.
depend on system ram, and it dont make a huge resizeable file , maybe better to make 8192 - 4096 if that is ram size. ( this is to reduce bottleneck on disk, the bigger the swapfile the longer it can take to catch up, )

ps.
also consolidate free space, but if SSD then it dont matter,
there is iobit smart defrag, but thats is just minor help

so yeah welcome to laptop Limitation ( and i doubt you dont have harware issue, other then slowness )

[Satoru]

Sounds like you got a 5400rpm internal drive and your anti-virus is likely going bonkers trying to scan every bit that is coming in causing a lot of delays too

Everyone who's ever said pre-allocation 'takes too long' has had local problems. Either with some bizarro land raid driver that is drunk, or their anti-virus was constnatly stalling the preallocation making it take forever