Transfer rates are slow.
Transfer rates are slow.
Chose to move a game from the stock Intel SSD to the 970 EVO Plus because it performs better. Later verified the copy/paste speeds, which seem quite slow—shouldn’t it reach at least 1000Mb/s or 500Mb/s?
If this task were purely sequential, you might notice it, but the reality shows it involves many tiny files rather than one large one. Consequently, file system operations are consuming too much time, making the process slower. The drive dedicates more effort to setting up space and updating records than actually writing data. This is why people doubt the "up to" ratings for SSDs, since in everyday scenarios you rarely encounter such performance. The exception comes when moving a single big file, which is what tools like Crystal Disk Mark simulate to produce those high figures.