Zorin 12 with SanDisk Extreme USB 3.1 2 x Intel Xeon X5650 testing with a LENOVO and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB on Zorin 12 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Asmedia USB 3.1 compare: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon X5650 @ 2.66GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: LENOVO, Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10, Memory: 49152MB, Disk: 500GB Extreme SSD + 120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12 + 500GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4096MB (1366/3504MHz), Audio: Analog Devices AD1988, Network: Mellanox MT26448 OS: Zorin 12, Kernel: 4.15.0-34-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.18.5, Display Driver: NVIDIA 384.130, OpenGL: 4.5.0, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Apache Benchmark 2.4.29 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Asmedia USB 3.1 compare . 13863.92 |=========================================== Gzip Compression Linux Source Tree Archiving To .tar.gz Seconds < Lower Is Better Asmedia USB 3.1 compare . 53.88 |============================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Asmedia USB 3.1 compare . 3304 |=============================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-4.15.tar.xz Seconds < Lower Is Better Asmedia USB 3.1 compare . 9.25 |=============================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Asmedia USB 3.1 compare . 1241.07 |============================================ Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Asmedia USB 3.1 compare . 202.56 |============================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Asmedia USB 3.1 compare . 1048.21 |============================================ Threaded I/O Tester 20170503 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Asmedia USB 3.1 compare . 120.48 |============================================= Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Asmedia USB 3.1 compare . 70.33 |============================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Asmedia USB 3.1 compare . 1384.05 |============================================ Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Asmedia USB 3.1 compare . 868.35 |============================================= Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Asmedia USB 3.1 compare . 293.57 |============================================= FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Asmedia USB 3.1 compare . 129.33 |============================================= AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Asmedia USB 3.1 compare . 1831.53 |============================================ Threaded I/O Tester 20170503 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Asmedia USB 3.1 compare . 115963.63 |========================================== SQLite 3.22 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better Asmedia USB 3.1 compare . 52.62 |==============================================