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Gigatone77 Mar 27, 2021 @ 4:30pm

1-2Mb Disk usage fix? answers pls

So this is not the first time this has happened. My old laptop would do this where my current would be around 8-10Mb but disk usage would cap at 1-2Mb. The same is happening with my new fresh out of the box ROG G14. I have no interrupting programs and my internet is fine. what could be causing these low disk usage numbers and how can I resolve the issue.

Before you waste your breath I do not have anything interrupting my disk, its SSD, and my internet is fine. something is throttling my disk usage but I cant figure out what. Nobody seems to actually address this specific concern of exclusively the disk usage of the device as it relates to when games are downloading. I know for sure that my disk is only working at 1% whenever my steam game is downloading.

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GOD RAYS ON ULTRA™ Mar 27, 2021 @ 4:44pm

Are you talking about disk usage 1-2mb's per second? It actually depends on what type of file the drive is reading. Some files are compressed, some are encrypted, some may need permissions ect. The drive won't reach it's top speed all the time. Some files may fly through your drive at the speed of light, some may run at kilobytes per second, it all depends.
What drive is it and what is its bus configuration? And what are you monitoring with? You can try validating one of your steam games and see if it can reach top speed while it's reading.

Crashed Mar 27, 2021 @ 5:01pm

If you are on a spinning HDD you should defragment it. Fragmentation can severely degrade performance.

Mad Scientist Mar 27, 2021 @ 5:16pm

Originally posted by Crashed:
If you are on a spinning HDD you should defragment it. Fragmentation can severely degrade performance.

Originally posted by Gigatone77:
I do not have anything interrupting my disk, its SSD

I feel Hardware Hero™ nailed the response on this one. Disk usage on an SSD, .1 to .4 is entirely normal for idling to low operations, .5-.8 can be downloading below 1MB/s, presuming it's a standard entry-level SSD.

Disk usage strictly depends on what, exactly, is going on and what needs to read/write from/to the drive accordingly and how quick or slow it can or is being done. You're not under the impression you should be capping out, right?

Carlsberg Mar 27, 2021 @ 5:48pm

Are we confusing megabits with megabytes? 8 megabits = 1 megabyte so speed is equal if that is the case.

And the ssd does not affect download speed, the files are downloaded to a ram buffer and written to disk from there and as stated above that part depends on the amount of work that has to be done to decompress etc.

Bad 💀 Motha Mar 27, 2021 @ 7:49pm

Your Internet speed in Steam will usually be shown in MegaBit per sec.
Disk usage is shown in MegaByte per sec.
1MByte is all you can download at via a 7-10Mbit connection.