Why does the speed decrease while copying from an external harddrive?
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I have an external hard drive that I needed to copy about 30 GB from. 8 DVD image files. The copy started out at 160 MB/s, quickly went down to around 80 MB/s and then slowly during the process it has now gone down to 11 MB/s (2.7 GB left)... What is going on here? Why does this happen? Using Windo…
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OS and drive buffers have filled up/been exhausted, and now you're transfering data as fast as the hard drive can supply/consume it.
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