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> So I can read from my disk at 117 MB/s. We’re far from the theoretical 1000 MB/s.

I think you are confusing megabytes a second and megabit. Gigabit speed is approximately 125 Megabytes per second. This is close to the speed you got.






Yes but not there, later they get 350MB/s with the same setup.

> I put that drive an ICY BOX IB-1817M-C31 enclosure, with a maximum theoretical speed of 1000 MB/s.

Checks out, it has a 10Gb/s USB port.

The mistake is

> the USB controller of the Pi has a bandwidth of 4GB/s shared across all 4 ports

It's actually 4Gb/s = 512MB/s


USB 3 is 5 Gbps, but real world never exceeds 400 MB/sec. 350 MB/sec isn't bad for a single USB 3 port.

This is absolutely right, thanks for pointing it out! The post has been updated to reflect that.



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