Why is extracting files so slow on my PC?

I have an i9 12700k CPU, 3.2 (up to 5GHz boost), 32 gig memory, a 2TB NVME, 3080ti 12gig card running Win 10. I'm getting like 20-30MB/s extraction a second. What's going on? I tried with 7zip, heard Winrar was better, I downloaded it, found it even slower and worse, they eventually charge for it.

I'm running the 64 bit version and I'm extracting directly from my M2. Is 30MB/s the best speed possible? My rig is a beast that screams through everything and should be able to chew through this no problem. Yet it's as if I didn't upgrade.

Extracting compressed data isn't transferring data on the drive which even that depends on the amount of files and the size of them.

You can try to run Crystal Disk Mark and see if your drive work at the speed that was advertised. I got a brand new NVMe SSD and did the same thing yesterday - got 100Mb/s slower than advertised and that's okay.

12700K should do a good job for it's price

Yeah, it's not doing much more than my old i7. I'd expect it to be doing double or triple, 60-90 MB/s if not hundreds, but it's stuck at 30. I guess this is standard, but what's the point of having a 32 bit version if 64 is just as slow? Unzipping gigs is a real hassle.

Synthetic bench isn't real world results, getting higher numbers isn't always noticeable - so it could be just 10% faster than your previous i7, especially if you jumped only 1-2 gens.

It's barely even 30% faster than previous gen by synthetic bench numbers so I wouldn't count on double or triple unless you had some i7 2600K.

Forgot to mention but it also depends on the method and complexity of the compression - the more time it took to compress and the more complex it'll take longer to decompress the files.

Unzipping files = pirate confirmed.

erm, I mean....HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!

So you never compress files to save space and sometimes to transfer files between computers over the internet or on your local network? between local drives on the same computer? never had to send somewhere a 100Mb work sheet but your mail server doesn't allow such huge files?

That's a bold statement, but people tend to do other stuff than just gaming.

@gerygo:

Oh I know! It was a joke. Just trying to keep up with GS forum memes, which include calling someone a pirate and noting that Steam sales aren't what they used to be.

Actually, doing this for mods I've been trying to get working for STALKER. But zipping and unzipping is widely used aside from pirating. But you were joking, so....

No one is using extreme compression for legitimate files, because they never take up tens of GB anyway (or >100GB theses days), not to mention that it would take forever to compress them in the first place, and no one is doing that for personal use, just like no one is using max compression settings to zip something they are trying to email, when everyone has a Google Drive (plus Dropbox) account along with gmail and would upload the files there instead.

What is this shit?

I'm doing nothing illegal, give me a break. These are STALKER mod zip files, found on modDB, perfectly legitimate and legal. 6 gigs, sometimes more, it's not that long, but when I'm often unzipping a variety of large mods, 5-10 minutes per zip adds up quickly.

Jesus Christ, guys...

We pirates rarely if ever use such huge compression files anyway.

Are they a bunch of small files? Firmware updates?

Specs:
CPU:AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor 3.59 GHz
GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti DDR6 6GB
RAM: 32gb 3200MHz DDR4
HDD: 2TB TOSHIBA HDWD220 5400 rpm Cache 128 MB, 6 Gbit/s
SSD: 250GB SKHynix_HFM256GDHTNI-87A0B
OS: Windows 10

No matter if I am using 7zip or WinRAR, 20gb took me around 4 hours, Installing a game through a .exe setup file takes ages too, my friends extracted the said 20gb for abour 20-30min.

I tried putting exceptions on my defender, didnt work. Winrar is set on high priority, didn't work. I turned off Defender, also didnt work. Could it be HHD issue? Ive noticed that moving stuff to another folder also take a bit of time. My pc isn't that old, i bought it 1 year ago brand new.

I don't know if if its because i have an SSD but in the task manager, in the Process tab disk is 50% but on Performance its 100%, reading speed didnt rise more than 10mb/s, it was constantly some KBs.