• cabbage@piefed.social
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    4 hours ago

    I feel like I can download files to my newest laptop faster than I can move them around locally on my older ones. But maybe I’m just getting old, and my reference points are dates. Or maybe I just don’t know what I’m talking about, that’s also likely.

    In either case, thanks for the explanation!

    • BangersAndMash@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Is it possible the hard drive is failing in the old one? I don’t know what the operating system would do if download speed surpassed write speed, but once it couldn’t hold it in ram any longer waiting to write I guess it would have to throttle it.