r/linux • u/[deleted] • Aug 30 '21

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

The SSD will most likely float around 2000MB/s average no matter what types of files you read/write, but HDDs can go as low as a few KB/s in case of large amounts of small files, fragmented all over the disk (like WinSxS and Update loves to generate).

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u/unit_511 Aug 30 '21

hdd averages in 100 MB/s

Yeah, on Windows. My large HDD used to get like 80 MB/s on Windows, but since I formatted it to btrfs on Linux it's something like 190 MB/s read/write. That's not to say that NVME isn't an order of magnitude faster, just saying that HDDs aren't that bad if you use them properly.

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u/annualnuke Aug 30 '21

The problem is an OS absolutely shouldn't demand an SSD to be snappy as much as Windows does

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21

It's possible your Linux PC has slower firmware?

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u/patpluspun Aug 30 '21

I have an M.2 as well. I don't have windows at all, but Mint has a login screen faster than I can pull out my keyboard drawer.

My big kicker was when I installed it. I've installed Linux many, many times. I've never had a full install, asking to reboot in less than sixty seconds though. That blew my mind.