Once upon a time, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> said: > Back when we had serial mice, the most common data rate was 1200 bps. That’s 0.0012 Mbit/sec. If your 480 Mbit/sec USB-2 or 5/10/20 Mbit/sec USB-3 bus is so jammed up that it can’t trickle through that much data per second from the mouse while an SSD on the same bus is blocked on I/O, it’s dreck hardware. Yes, you have described USB. The newer storage-specific transfer modes for USB3 try to do better, but it's still a shared bus and requires lots of CPU "assistance" to do just about anything. And there are lots of systems that have some USB3 and some USB2 ports - accidentally plug your external SSD into a USB2 port and start copying lots of data, and the system can just about appear to be hung. Welcome to USB! -- Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>