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I'm using Fedora 22 Linux, and just got a brand new Samsung 850EVO 250GB SSD. I'm trying to move some of my files (mostly, my most-used games) from my old HDD to my new SSD but the transfer speed is nowhere near what I expected.
hdparm shows the read speed of the HDD at 105mb/s and the read speed of the SSD at 520mb/s but the files are transfering at less than 20mb/s.
Both drives are connected to Sata 3 ports and i've tried replacing both SATA cables with brand new ones, and saw no change.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
Edit: they are connected to SATA_1 and SATA_2 on the motherboard both slots are sata 3.0 ports. Both file systems are ext4
What size are the files? How are you copying them? – Daniel B – 2016-01-26T07:46:25.403
though GUI using caja. Files vary in size from a few kb to 20gb – Josh Raymond – 2016-01-26T07:56:20.213
Try to use
rsync
with the option for sparse files. It can happens, for example, if you find directory with a wide number of files (thousands) or if you transfer some big files on a wrong file system. Can you [edit] your question adding info as if they are connected to the same port and which kind of File System they have? – Hastur – 2016-01-26T08:08:41.563