Average Hard Drive Transfer to Transfer Speed

multi-tasker-X

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What is the average transfer speed for an internal transfer to transfer file hard drive speed.

These are the 2 hard drives i have. 2 x 500GB
They are pretty old hard drives but still all work.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148135
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136769


I did a test. I transfered a file 1.44GB from hard drive to another.

From D to C
The average speed was about 80-100MB/second

From C to D
The average speed was about 50-70MB/second


That is really slow. I thought my hard drive was "SATA 6 Gb/s "
shouldn't it be almost instant when transfer a 1.44GB file?


Am i not understanding something?



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6 gbps is just the interface to the controller on the drive, it doesn't really have a bearing on how the drive handles putting the data on its platters.

With those low density, old drives I'd be happy with a consistent 50 MB/sec
 
No drive can transfer 6gb in a second. Those 16mb cache drives are slower then the 64mb cache drives. But as Voyagerfan has said, one of those drives you posted is an IDE drive so will be slower transferring then the SATA drive.
 
The first drive is ATA100, which is 100MB/s max throughput. Taking into account that all the data isn't stored in the drives cache, and overhead, your speeds aren't out of the ordinary.

johnb35 said:
No drive can transfer 6gb in a second. Those 16mb cache drives are slower then the 64mb cache drives. But as Voyagerfan has said, one of those drives you posted is an IDE drive so will be slower transferring then the SATA drive.
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*Mechanical drive. Many SSDs are bottlenecked by the 6Gbps interface.
 
Well i ended up using usb 3.0 flash drive to transfer most of my files, it was slow, but faster then hard drives,

I also tried via network, and i was getting about 6mps

My router is only 54mps, and i was on wireless,

so slow!

the only thing i have not tried is:
crossover cables & straight cables, from computer to computer,

but i'm assuming it will be slow also,


im glad i dont need to copy files often, what a pain!
 
multi-tasker-X said:
My router is only 54mps, and i was on wireless,

so slow!
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Of course, 802.11g is ancient and not particularly fast.
the only thing i have not tried is:
crossover cables & straight cables, from computer to computer,
but i'm assuming it will be slow also,
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Gigabit will make your drive transfer rate the bottleneck.
 
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