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.
> 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
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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.