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File Transfer Speed
I have long wondered about the speed of transferring files from one drive/partition to another, but only recently found specific variations that evade any conclusions by myself. I have been downloading movies, which are destined to a partition on an internal drive, and which after organizing them, I cut/paste to another partition on an external drive.
In all cases, the same file types, number of files, software used and hardware involved are identical, but the speed of these operations vary from <than 10MB/s to >than 50MB/s. There is no other functions apparently in process at these times that might be interfering, nor any other explanation that comes to mind. Can anyone suggest a possible reason that I'm overlooking?