On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 23:44:58 -0700 (PDT)
jack4747@gmail.com wrote:

> Mmhh, I'm not sure that having a SSD is better than a normal mechanical
> HD, since the bottleneck is the (slow) USB2 connection.

 Random IO is *way* faster because of zero seek time. It's not the
bulk rate that matters for most purposes so much as the random IO.

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