transfer speed?

Hi I have a Samsung PM951 256GB M.2 PCI-e 3.0 x 4 NVMe Solid State Drive as OS and a Seagate 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD as 2nd hard drive.

When I copy and paste something over I get average 200MB transfer speed. Also I get even slow extracting speed. Now im testing GTAV and transferring that over from my HDD to SSD and getting 200MB transfer speed. Is that normal or should I get faster speed?. I have a Z170-E mobo and a I76700k 4ghz CPU. The cables for the HDD is in the right slot too.

Thanks.

@skipper847:

Your hitting the max read speed of your mechanical drive you not going to get faster transfer speeds. Now if your copying from your ssd to HDD it would be even slower. You are getting the correct speeds so dont worry about it. Mechanical drives dont even saturate sata 2 ports.

@skipper847: Having fast SSD 500/500Mbs or 3Gb/s doesn't mean you can move things out/from HDD with those speeds, you'll get the slower speeds of the HDD instead because it depends on that, if you were to transfer files between 2 SSDs with the same speed then you'll get the speeds of that SSD.

Similar situation is when you install 2 RAM DIMMS (or 2 different sets) with different speeds, the MOBO will set the speed of the slower RAM.