Sabrent USB 3.2 Enclosure + Sabrent Rocket Q 2TB NVMe SSD On Linux Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Storage on 20 July 2020 at 12:00 PM EDT. Page 2 of 3. 13 Comments.
Sabrent USB 3.2 NVMe PCIe Key + Sabrent Rocket Q
Sabrent USB 3.2 NVMe PCIe Key + Sabrent Rocket Q
Sabrent USB 3.2 NVMe PCIe Key + Sabrent Rocket Q
Sabrent USB 3.2 NVMe PCIe Key + Sabrent Rocket Q

For Google's LevelDB key-value storage library, the performance ended up being similar both when the Rocket Q 2TB was connected directly to the system and via USB 3.2.

Sabrent USB 3.2 NVMe PCIe Key + Sabrent Rocket Q

SQLite also yielded similar performance between the two interfaces.

Sabrent USB 3.2 NVMe PCIe Key + Sabrent Rocket Q

And for moderate I/O tasks like building the Linux kernel source tree from said NVMe SSD, the build time was similar in that real-world case.


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