Download Speed drops to 0

[Tyr]

Hey guys,

I'm looking for help with the download speed constantly going to 0 and taking hours to download.

My OS is on an SSD 980 500GB, no games or anything.

I have an SSD CT500 just for heavier games, also works fine and downloads normally.

Now the problem... for my normal games, I have a Seagate 2TB BarraCuda 7200rpm 3.5.

I also have an old gaming HDD that I only use now for docs and photos - Western Digital WD10EZEX-60M2NA0 - 1TB 7.2K RPM.

A couple of months ago, my BarraCuda while downloading or updating it would be writing at like 2MB/s and download having highs of 50 Mb/s but 80% of the time it would be at 0 B/s.

After reinstalling Steam, the writing speed was fixed and now he presents normal writing numbers... the problem is the downloads...

So when I start a download it's going super fast with high speeds... but after 30 secs it drops to 0 staying there for a while and sometimes downloading at a very low speed.

The weird thing is that this cut at the download speed only happens in this Seagate HDD, but when I'm installing a game on my SSDs or even my old and very used Western Digital, it works fine without any drops.

An example, I started downloading a game for 2 minutes on the Seagate one. I managed to download 867 mb/s... while doing it on Western Digital, in just 1 minute I was 1.5GBs downloaded.

I can't figure out why my download speed is being cut to 0 on my recent Seagate HDD, but I know it used to work fine... any ideas?

PS - In other companies' launchers, the Seagate HDD has no problem and both HDDs get the same download speed and writing... this problem only happens with Steam on the Seagate HDD

[Ettanin]

yes, the HDD is too slow to handle Steam's heavy I/O on your full download speed.
Steam needs to decrypt and decompress chunks of data in real time and therefore throttles the download if the drive cannot keep up with it

[Tyr]

Nguyên văn bởi Ettanin:

yes, the HDD is too slow to handle Steam's heavy I/O on your full download speed.
Steam needs to decrypt and decompress chunks of data in real-time and therefore throttles the download if the drive cannot keep up with it

I understand that, but it doesn't explain why a 1TB Western Digital, old and super used (like 10 years old) ends up downloading faster. My 2TB Seagate used to be fine, now most of the time is at 0b/s or 1 MB/s.

Something is up and I can't figure out what.

Besides, like I said and I quote:

"An example, I started downloading a game for 2 minutes on the Seagate one. I managed to download 867 mb/s... while doing it on Western Digital, in just 1 minute I was 1.5GBs downloaded."

Taking this real example, what you said is true, but the problem here must be different, otherwise I would have had the same results on both of them since both are 7.2k rpm