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Upgrading hardware
If you wish to prevent your download speed from being limited by your disk performance, you may wish to upgrade or add an internal, high performance hard drive to your computer. ???????????????????????????????????????????
Going to say it anyway, there is a problem with 840 EVOs. Users have been reporting very bad slowdowns.
Samsung are still working on a fix.
Source (one of many): http://www.pcworld.com/article/2887255/samsung-promises-yet-another-fix-for-slowed-840-evo-ssds.html
This is a pretty common "problem" with Steam... and invariably people will tell you that your HD is too slow.
No. It's not.
It's because of the way certain downloads are handled on Steam. For whatever ridiculous reason, certain games are "packaged" in such a way that they download in smaller chunks, then install said chunks, before resuming and downloading the next.
I have no idea why it's done this way, but it seems more prevalent with certain specific games more than others. For example, I can download 40 gigs worth of one game in an hour and never have an issue... then Euro Truck 2 or Pay Day 2 will have a 12MB update that takes 20 minutes to download.
If it was really a problem with any one of my HDDs (this happens on literally every computer I've used)... it would affect all downloads the same. Not just specific games, or once in a while out of the blue.
Yeah it's a problem with it ! you are blind i can download from torrent with 60-70 mb/sec like for one hour , and i cant download a game from steam in 1 h becouse "busy writing to disk" yeah my samsung ssd is the problem wtf :)
Additionally, I'm running an 840 on one of my systems and constantly get busy writing to disk, doesn't happen on my others. Funny that.
I just copy dayz (8.7 gb - a pretty big amount of files - in 40 sec ) so again i belive not my ssd is the problem :)
Well people have presented you with some links and correlation evidence to help you figure out the problem and you've subsequently shot it all down. Sooooo, I guess you're smarter than everyone else and the problem is definitely not your SSD. Can we get an admin close the thread then since the OP already knows we're all wrong?
In case you were wondering though...here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/2iflcj/does_this_happen_to_anyone_else_busy_writing_to/
Then if is so , my bad :)
I still contend that it is not. It is borderline impossible that your download speeds are exceeding your SSD's read/write capability.
The issue isn't with HD speed, but inefficency in how Steam handles certain downloads.
If it was, then pretty much every single person who owns PayDay 2 has a slow or dying hard drive, because pretty much every single person experiences this issue with that game.
It worked for a few people but not the majority, it may work for you. Or just wait for the new fix.
I'll second this.
It's also one of the reasons why I keep PAYDAY 2's updates as manual until launch.
(It's gonna be fun when I'll launch it the next time, I bet!)
There is a KNOWN issue with the 840s, not disputing the fact that Payday2 has a bad problem. The thing is the 840s can get as slow as 20MB/s.
Likewise, I'm not disputing that there is an issue with the 840s, but the erratic Steam download speeds are an issue that is not specific to any particular brand or type of hard drive.