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Fix for getting your SSD working via USB 3 on your Raspberry PI

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Mar 10, 2021

Did you connect an SSD to your Raspberry PI 4, with a SATA to USB 3.0 adapter, and getting poor read and write speeds? In theory this setup should yield significant speed improvements, making your Raspberry PI 4 system a worthy PC for your daily work. Unfortunately, some SATA to USB 3.0 adapters do not work that well in combination with your Raspberry PI 4. This article offers a fix for getting your SSD working via USB 3.0 on your Raspberry PI.

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