IIRC, SATA over USB3 can offer competitive performance for sequential I/O, but PCIe will give better random I/O performance and lower CPU usage. tkaiser of the

IIRC, SATA over USB3 can offer competitive performance for sequential I/O, but PCIe will give better random I/O performance and lower CPU usage. tkaiser of the armbian project has a lot to say about this stuff. I find his posts in the cnx-software.com comments and armbian forums very helpful. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/8097-nanopi-m4-performance-and-consumption-review/?do=findComment&comment=61783 https://forum.armbian.com/topic/8097-nanopi-m4-performance-a... https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/Knowledge https://github.com/ThomasKaiser/Knowledge