PC running Windows 10 appalling file transfer speed

Hi Everyone,

Im a newbie on this forum so tell me if Im posting incorrectly or doing anything else wrong?

We`ve been told by Microsoft that Windows 10 is the best and most stable OS ever, but thats not my experience of it. Im constantly googling how to sort things out that are not working in Win 10 or following instructional videos on YT to try and resolve things, and what staggers me is I have a particular problem, I google it or search within You Tube for an answer but invariably straightaway start getting responses saying `Oh yes this is a common or well known problem in Windows 10`! Well why dont Seattle get off their bums and put these well known issues put right in their updates?

My current problem, thats driving me absolutely mad, is the slow transfer speed Win 10 has in just copying data files from my PC to various hard disk drives or even to another folder on the same disk that the original file is on, on my PC. On Windows 8.1, I used to get transfer speeds of 200 mb/s regularly, now running Windows 10 it can be anything from 13 mb/s down to a few kb/s! This is total madness, I used to back up all my data on a Saturday and it used to take a couple of hours, now its taking anything up to 3 days. Now I've tried a few fixes people have suggested via Google searches or in YT videos but to date I`m in as bad a state as a few weeks ago, when thinking the problem was `something unknown` on my system I had a complete OS reinstall done on my PC and the file transfer speed when I got my PC back hadn't changed one iota. My PC is a Lenovo H50-50 desktop i5-4460 processor with 16GB RAM, it was manufactured in February 2015, so surely not ready for the scrap heap just yet.

Any help that anyone can give will be much appreciated.

Thanks everyone

Steve

Hi Samuria,

Id given the specification within my thread.

Its a Lenovo H50-50 desktop i5-4460 cpu @ 3.2ghz. It has 16gb RAM and its running Win 10 home.

I hope that helps?

Kind regards

Steve

Hi Samuria,

Id given the specification within my thread.

Its a Lenovo H50-50 desktop i5-4460 cpu @ 3.2ghz. It has 16gb RAM and its running Win 10 home.

I hope that helps?

Kind regards

Steve

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Hi Samuria,

This is the result of running minitoolbox.

MiniToolBox by Farbar Version: 17-06-2016
Ran by PC (administrator) on 24-09-2020 at 15:21:51
Running from "C:\Users\PC\Downloads"
Microsoft Windows 10 Home (X64)
Model: 90B6007BUK Manufacturer: LENOVO
Boot Mode: Normal
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========================= Flush DNS: ===================================

Windows IP Configuration

Successfully flushed the DNS Resolver Cache.

========================= IE Proxy Settings: ==============================

Proxy is not enabled.
No Proxy Server is set.

"Reset IE Proxy Settings": IE Proxy Settings were reset.

========================= FF Proxy Settings: ==============================


"Reset FF Proxy Settings": Firefox Proxy settings were reset.

========================= Hosts content: =================================
========================= IP Configuration: ================================

Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller = Ethernet (Connected)
Bluetooth Device (Personal Area Network) = Bluetooth Network Connection (Media disconnected)
Realtek RTL8723BE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC = WiFi (Media disconnected)


# ----------------------------------
# IPv4 Configuration
# ----------------------------------
pushd interface ipv4

reset
set global
set interface interface="Ethernet (Kernel Debugger)" forwarding=enabled advertise=enabled nud=enabled ignoredefaultroutes=disabled
set interface interface="Bluetooth Network Connection" forwarding=enabled advertise=enabled nud=enabled ignoredefaultroutes=disabled
set interface interface="WiFi" forwarding=enabled advertise=enabled nud=enabled ignoredefaultroutes=disabled
set interface interface="Ethernet" forwarding=enabled advertise=enabled nud=enabled ignoredefaultroutes=disabled
set interface interface="Local Area Connection* 9" forwarding=enabled advertise=enabled nud=enabled ignoredefaultroutes=disabled
set interface interface="Local Area Connection* 10" forwarding=enabled advertise=enabled nud=enabled ignoredefaultroutes=disabled

Are you talking about network transfer speed or transfer speed between local disks? Not clear from your description.

Suppose the 2nd variant. For first orientation, some expected transfer speeds (they depend on particular device type):
sata ssd ... 350 MB/s or more
sata hdd ... 90-180 MB/s
usb2 hdd ... 25 MB/s
usb3 hdd ... 90 MB/s or more
(gigabit ethernet ... 90 MB/s)

Copying from/to same device:
sata ssd <-> the same sata ssd ... 200 MB/s
sata hdd <-> the same sata hdd ... cca 50 MB/s

RAID:
0 or 1+0 ... multiple of one disk speed
1 ... same as one disk speed
5 ... read speed as raid0, write speed limited by processor

SMR disk, the first suspect:
any device <-> SMR disk ... anything between 0 (yes, zero) and 180MB/s, depends on current disk condition

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Please select one source and one target disk you typically use, determine their exact types (use Crystal Disk Info) and connection (sata/usbx), and write down transfer speed between them. And distinguish between bit (b) and byte (B). Post results here, screenshots are welcome. Then the speed can be compared with expected values.

Hi guys,

Im sorry but a lot of what you're asking is going straight over my head, I`m somewhat computer savvy but wouldn't be capable of doing things like write a registry entry for instance.

All I can say is that I`m using Western Digital or Seagate hard disk drives in the main for back ups. They're all set up as NTFS format. Usually every Saturday I`m trying to do my weekly back up which is all the data in a 2TB hard disk on my computer. Today I've been trying to copy data files from a Seagate 2TB external HDD to a Western Digital 2TB HDD The files sizes involved are 141GB in one folder and 290GB in the other. I was copying both of these folders over from one drive to another starting at about 9am this morning, the smaller of the two files has now managed to reach 83% of the total files transferred. An hour ago I stopped the transfer of the other folder which had only reached 20% of the total transfer, thinking if I stopped that one all the PC resources could go into at least getting one folder finished. As I said earlier I used to copy both of these files over every Saturday morning in about 2 hours and then get on with my life.

Thanks for all the help you guys are trying to give me but I may not be computer savvy enough to understand what you're asking me to do or provide.

Maybe at 5 years old my PC is toast, I`ll give it some thought overnight but maybe the answer is just throw all my PC and hard disk drives away, (some of the drives are only 4 months old BTW) and just start afresh with a new PC.

Apologies Im not computer literate to know enough about what you're asking me so that I can give you the info to help me sort out this issue, there's probably a couple of tweaks and adjustments and it would all work. Its just a damned shame Microsoft give us this appalling OS that doesn't work, perhaps if they'd stuck with 8.1 everyone in the world would still be happy!

Cheers guys I really do appreciate what you tried to do to help me.

Kind regards

Steve