When copying/transferring files on your computer from drive A to drive B, which drive is doing the “reading” and which drive is doing the “writing”? What determines the rate of transfer if hard drive A is say, an SSD and hard drive B is a HDD?

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When copying/transferring files on your computer from drive A to drive B, which drive is doing the “reading” and which drive is doing the “writing”? What determines the rate of transfer if hard drive A is say, an SSD and hard drive B is a HDD?

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Answer 1

Think of this as two people. One holds a book (Drive A) and reads it aloud to the second person, which is copying and writing it down(Drive B).

It won’t matter how fast Drive A can read it, if Drive B can’t write at the same speed that Drive A is reading.