Downloading on HDD is really slow help!!!

[ToooMuch]

I have a 5200 RPM HDD, and when I try to download games onto it, both the disk speed and download speed drop to KBps before going back up to a few MBps (2-3 MBps). My actual internet speed is 300 Mbps. This cycle keeps repeating, significantly increasing the installation time. Meanwhile, downloading the same game on EGS completes in a fraction of the time.

I know it's an HDD bottleneck, but is there any way to improve the download speed?

[RPG Gamer Man]

Not with a HDD bottleneck. Only way you could improve that is to buy a newer and fast hard drive. I suggest a SSD, but i know not everyone can do that.

My pc has a SSD and the speed is awesome on it.

[Supafly]

Steam downloads in compressed chunks, once a chunk is down it gets decompressed and installed. Only way to improve Steam Download/install speeds is to install a faster drive, SSDs are not that expensive nowadays

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by Supafly:

Steam downloads in compressed chunks, once a chunk is down it gets decompressed and installed. Only way to improve Steam Download/install speeds is to install a faster drive, SSDs are not that expensive nowadays

And it is exactly what i said above, minus the techno-babble.

[Supafly]

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

Originally posted by Supafly:

Steam downloads in compressed chunks, once a chunk is down it gets decompressed and installed. Only way to improve Steam Download/install speeds is to install a faster drive, SSDs are not that expensive nowadays

And it is exactly what i said above, minus the techno-babble.

And I included the techno babble, aka Context, to explain why Steam Downloads slower than EGS. I could have done what you've just done and pointed out your post lacked the context and only answered PART of the OT, but I wasn't trying to pick at someone elses comments... like some

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by Supafly:

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

And it is exactly what i said above, minus the techno-babble.

And I included the techno babble, aka Context, to explain why Steam Downloads slower than EGS. I could have done what you've just done and pointed out your post lacked the context and only answered PART of the OT, but I wasn't trying to pick at someone elses comments... like some

If you thought i was picking, im sorry if it came over that way. It was not my intention.

[HIVEmind]

check for drivers motherboard ssd drivers and network card drivers.

[Satoru]

Steam can obliterate 1gbps connections

Your steam download and patches are limited by

1) your cpu
2) your disk IO
3) your anti-virus
4) your ISP

Pick one

[Iceira]

OP you sure steam has not change default drev, if you have 2 disk drevs, most has a SSD and HDD to older games, that dont need that soeed. ( steam will move other drev if it get near FULL.

ps.
This is why free space is serious today, you do not want system and steam get under 200gb left. ( this value dont make its better then games is past 100gb, we are talking about older ganes here. )