This is interesting, but clearly there was caching going on, because the physical bus can't go as fast as some of these results. Samsung's own comments about th

This is interesting, but clearly there was caching going on, because the physical bus can't go as fast as some of these results. Samsung's own comments about their drives: To reach maximum read/write speeds of up to 1,050/1,000 MB/s, respectively, the host device and connection cables must support USB 3.2 Gen 2 and the UASP mode must be enabled. Timing cached reads: 2038 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1020.29 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 874 MB in 3.00 seconds = 291.21 MB/sec Makes sense. Timing cached reads: 35130 MB in 2.00 seconds = 17596.74 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 2620 MB in 3.02 seconds = 866.55 MB/sec 17 gigabytes a second? If I had to guess, the test was run more than once without flushing the (computer's memory) cache / being rebooted / being disconnected and reconnected.