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.

On Thu, Aug 4, 2022, 5:33 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 2022-08-04 at 05:43 -0700, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm thinking the bottleneck might be the USB.  Any thoughts PLUG?
>
> I'm almost positive that a USB2 interface will badly bottleneck an SSD.
> Might as
> well get a 5400rpm spinning rust.
>
> If you have even one USB3 on your computer, you can get a USB3 USB hub
> with its own
> power supply, so you have plenty of USB3 ports.
>
> SteveT
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