No - USB 2.0 is 80 MB/s theoretical, and you're lucky to get half of that sustained in practice. 20 MB/s is normal in my experience. Meanwhile hard drives have

No - USB 2.0 is 80 MB/s theoretical, and you're lucky to get half of that sustained in practice. 20 MB/s is normal in my experience. Meanwhile hard drives have exceeded 100 MB/s on sequential read.