USB flash drive performance
What if your USB thumb drive could perform faster?
We took a typical USB 3.1 thumb drive and performed three types of test. One was Sysbench with its fileio mode, which we used for synchronous reads and writes. It’s a synthetic test, but it does stress a filesystem far more than most manual file operations. Second was the Postmark read test (100,000 transactions), while the third was the dataset test, which involved unpacking a Linux kernel tarball on to the drive.