Thanks for that - especially:
you can't have any USB 2 components (e.g. cable extender) between a USB 3 device and a USB 3 port or header, otherwise you will drop to the lower speed.
It's good to have the head-up on that cos it's exactly what I was going to do with the proposed build.
The motherboard is old. A FOXCONN A7GM-S Brisbane 2.7 Ghz, and despite loads of mentions, never did get a clear pdf of what was obviously a popular purchase in 2010.
But there were more than a few mentions of the test programs being bloated - and bloated by unknown individuals with heaven knows what. So, good old-fashioned stopwatch of an oil painting scan that's a quarter-gig.
FROM SSD TO STICK - 1:18 So about 2.7mb/sec. Front and back were the same. From my Samsung backup HD, it was much the same. That was a surprise, so I guess the bottleneck is the old USB speed.
My move into the modern world must come sooner than expected.
Looks like a gem.
USB Made Simple - Part 3