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The OS is on an SD card but all storage is on a separate USB drive.
For our usage pattern (two users, few devices concurrently) I can detect no performance issues at all.
Apparently it becomes a problem with high concurrency because the ethernet port shares a bus with the USB connectors, so disk writes and network traffic ends up competing for the bus causing slowdowns.
The OS is on an SD card but all storage is on a separate USB drive.
For our usage pattern (two users, few devices concurrently) I can detect no performance issues at all.
Apparently it becomes a problem with high concurrency because the ethernet port shares a bus with the USB connectors, so disk writes and network traffic ends up competing for the bus causing slowdowns.
Thanks! The shared bus info was something I did not anticipate.