<div dir="auto">An ssd on usb 2 still has an advantage in random seek operation and power consumption vs spinning rust. On top of being vibration and movement resilient in comparison. And it will also provide a touch of future-proofing. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 4, 2022, 5:33 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 2022-08-04 at 05:43 -0700, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
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> I'm thinking the bottleneck might be the USB. Any thoughts PLUG?<br>
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I'm almost positive that a USB2 interface will badly bottleneck an SSD. Might as<br>
well get a 5400rpm spinning rust.<br>
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If you have even one USB3 on your computer, you can get a USB3 USB hub with its own<br>
power supply, so you have plenty of USB3 ports.<br>
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SteveT<br>
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