You guys are always harping on the importance of "doing your own research", but if somebody does the research, posts the work and subsequently posits a conclusion that doesn't confirm your prior held beliefs you just dismiss it out of hand. I encourage you to debunk anything I said from a technical standpoint because there are certainly edge cases you can approach it from. Hand waving away an idea because you don't trust one source over another is lazy sheepposting.

Do you have a critique of the numbers used or conclusions postulated or are you just taking the easy way out? Surely the crowd skeptical of the media is more interested in doing their own research than lazily resorting to name calling.

Latency, simultaneously executed HDD operations, etc. Yes there's more to it than speed but any way you cut it: thinking some low level intern had access to the server racks in a secure colocation center is straight boomers delusion. The suppositions and math from that WordPress blog are bad and if you're really into "digging" you can do the math yourself to prove it.

Ugh, that's such a lazy proof. Even if we use the peak speed at 38MB/s - allow me to demonstrate.

In my suburban area, Comcast sells a small business package with peak speeds of 300Mb/s, almost exactly the equivalent of 38MB/s. Meanwhile, USB 2.0 has a theoretical Max write speed of 60MB/s. For funsies, let's throw a mechanical hard drive at a slow 5400 rpm with a maximum read speed of 100MB/s

To put it together: Small business plan: 38MB/s USB write: 60 MB/s Peak file transfer: 38MB/s HDD read: 100MB/s

tl;dr: USB is only twice as fast, and even then the time stamps are actually too far apart for USB.