![]() I have a 5 TB external drive also (Western Digital Elements). Meanwhile, my 5 TB HDD (which is an internal 7,200 RPM Western Digital Black so not a slower one) took like 8 hours. it was in the neighborhood of 15 to 30 minutes, (I didn't count so this is a seriously rough estimate but it was half hour-ish or less). My 1 TB SSD (SATA III, so not even the faster M2/NVMe stuff) took like. If you've ever run a check disk on an SSD versus a larger HDD, you'll see. Hard drives can be VERY slow relative to SSDs at some tasks. This will apply especially if this is some 5,400 RPM external drive. In your case, a network connection that fast is probably fast enough that a slower storage drive can bottleneckek just the download process (and that is just accounting for downloads, whereas Steam also has to unpack things and set them up). The first thing to check is to make sure you're using USB 3.1 or USB 3.0 at least, as USB 2.0 is far too slow.īeyond that (meaning, if you are), it's probably just how it goes. Whenever I use my external for anything else its usually pretty zippy, for example transferring a 5GB movie from my laptop to the external usually only takes a minute or two, and the windows progress bar says its transferring at a rate of 140 MB/s.Įverything I've been able to find doing research on the topic all seems to posted in 2017, which leads me to believe something was changed in an update then and hasn't been fixed since.ĭoes anyone have any thoughts? Tips? Tricks? ![]() It seems to work at a normal speed for a few minutes then it plummets to something ridiculous like 40 KB/s for a while than repeats the cycle. Steam says the Network Usage speeds are the same during both tests, but the Disk Usage is much lower on the external or sometimes just out of wack in general. Again I know my SSD is obviously going to be faster, but I can not accept that that is a normal separation between the two. When I tried the same game on my external, the Creating Files page took about five minutes and the actual download took a whopping 45 minutes. When I selected my internal drive, the Creating Local Game Files screen lasted 5 seconds, and the download was two minutes fifteen seconds start to finish. To give a frame of reference, I decided to run a little test with Amnesia Dark Descent, which in the downloads page is said to be 1.2 GB. The "creating local game files" step takes a really long time, and then the actual download takes even longer. However, whenever I try to download anything to my external HDD (Its a 5TB drive, less than a year old, name brand) it is abysmal. When I download to my laptop's SSD, everything downloads at the speed one would expect. I have google fiber internet which speedtest clocks at 920 MBPS. This is a problem I've had for a while now and have just lived with, but it's incredibly annoying so I was wondering if anyone has a possible solution. Yes, I know that HDD's are not as fast as SSD's, but this is well beyond that.
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