On 8/5/19 3:00 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > The keyboard is USB attached and the external SSD disk is USB attached. WHY? Why would you do that? What's the point of SSD if you reduce the speed to USB? Or just use an old mechanical drive instead. Any issue with that drive will show up as IO Wait - my presumption is that you expect to see that so you're not mentioning it but it's going to be extremely high. Remember, USB does not behave like SATA. And you may also find that the "max speed" in the specification is far from what you get out of your hardware. Use eSATA if you need it externally - not USB(3 or otherwise). -- Regards Peter Larsen