Hej Benny!

Cutting and pasting for stats;

# writing to onboard uSD card using dd
dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dd bs=1M count=512
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
536870912 bytes (537 MB, 512 MiB) copied, 58.4449 s, 9.2 MB/s

# writing to usb connected msata using dd
dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dd bs=1M count=512
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
536870912 bytes (537 MB, 512 MiB) copied, 12.8056 s, 41.9 MB/s

# writing to usb connected 2.5" laptop drive using dd
dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dd bs=1M count=512
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
536870912 bytes (537 MB, 512 MiB) copied, 12.9187 s, 41.6 MB/s

Both the msata and the 2.5" laptop drive are 4 times faster than the uSD. However it should be noted that there is an issue with the usb sata bridge that states;

[ 139.399549] usb 1-1.2: The driver for the USB controller dwc_otg_hcd does not support scatter-gather which is
[ 139.399569] usb 1-1.2: required by the UAS driver. Please try an other USB controller if you wish to use UAS.

However it wasn't fatal as demonstrated by the dd write to the drive mounted on the JMS567 SATA 6Gb/s bridge, but after witnessing this I will continue to use the 2.5" laptop drive given that there are no such errors on there and the results were just as good. Hopefully newer raspberry pi's will ditch the uSD interface and put on a msata or m.2 controller/interface in the future. uSD's should be left to crippled hardware as people who use those devices don't seem to mind (over)paying for utter crap. ;-)

I won't even mention the onboard wifi. More useless crap that is a drain on the system. :::sigh:::

Anyhow, for the record, the same test on a usb3.0 interface;

# writing to usb3 connected msata using dd
dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dd bs=1M count=512
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
536870912 bytes (537 MB, 512 MiB) copied, 1.13874 s, 471 MB/s

MUCH BETTER!!! :-)

Hopefully you'll have better results with the addon card. One thing for sure is that msata is a vast improvement over the onboard uSD and is worth the extra investment.

Livet er godt,
Maurice

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