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What is a normal file copy speed for SSD?

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I am copying a folder (320 items, 1.9GB) on an SSD to a different location on the same SSD and getting a transfer rate of 5MB/s. Is this to be expected? Simultaneous reading and writing to the same drive will slow things down, but still - I would guess this rate is slow. I get these values from HDT…

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Sounds like you think all SSD's are equal (or near equal) which is not true. See, for example these benchmarks Also the speed is not just dependent on the SSD. But no, I would not consider 5MB/s to be particularly fast. For example, the last real co…

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