download speed and disk write speed are highly inconsistent

[YoHz]

Hi! My download speed and disk write speed are highly inconsistent. I have a good fiber internet connection, so that shouldn't be the issue. I suspect the problem lies with my SSD. How can I check this, and is there anything I can do to improve, "stop" or stabilize the situation?

https://gyazo.com/be1d105498412abaf41d3c8a3a7ffa60

[xarvn]

In addition to internet speed and drive speed, potential bottlenecks could also be associated with CPU and I/O subsystems. Because Steam downloads are compressed and encrypted, significant processing must be performed which require CPU and I/O resources.

[Tanasinn [AZ]]

I wish Steam would just let me download the game in one shot, then install it all in one shot. Right now it keeps jumping up and down to acceptable download speeds to 0, every few seconds.
The only thing I can think of why they would do it this way is if they heavily compress their files and don't want their servers getting destroyed by everyone's fast internet speed.

[Satoru]

Steam can obliterate 1gbps connections and can send A consistent 500mbps over a TransAtlantic line from Europe to the USA East Coast

Note that Steam patching is both CPU and Disk IO intensive

People vastly misunderstand how their SSD works and that you can easily saturate the cache if you have a very cheap SSD and the performance of your drive will fall through the floor once you hit that limit. Steam patching is the worst case scenario for your drive as such you will never actually reach the “theoretical” limits

Another common issue is your antivirus killing the performance of your disk as it constantly hijacks the file lock to scan it every time a chunk is written. Add whitelisting to your antivirus or uninstall it and use Windows Defender which doesn’t have this issue

[nullable]

Originally posted by YoHz:

Hi, my download speed and disk write speed are highly inconsistent, i have a good Fiber internett and that shoudlnt be the problem, I guess it is my SSD however how can i check in and anything that could be done to "help" / stop it

https://gyazo.com/be1d105498412abaf41d3c8a3a7ffa60

Well I'd be curious about your specific SSD brand/model. Not all SSD's are created equal. So some sort of low end, budget, OEM SSD may not have the performance your expect for every workload. Even if the maximum speeds stated are high, it's really hard to catch performance for every workload in a single number...

[YoHz]

Originally posted by nullable:

Originally posted by YoHz:

Hi, my download speed and disk write speed are highly inconsistent, i have a good Fiber internett and that shoudlnt be the problem, I guess it is my SSD however how can i check in and anything that could be done to "help" / stop it

https://gyazo.com/be1d105498412abaf41d3c8a3a7ffa60

Well I'd be curious about your specific SSD brand/model. Not all SSD's are created equal. So some sort of low end, budget, OEM SSD may not have the performance your expect for every workload. Even if the maximum speeds stated are high, it's really hard to catch performance for every workload in a single number...

My SSD is INTEL HBRPEKNX0202A

[Engliesh Bill]

bandwith issues.. Game worked fine for a couple of years . Now it logs in and after a minute or so it tells me i dont have enough .. They did something to the game . you would think that this is all them but they too busy collecting money from amazon.