Does anyone know of any benchmarks of the same drive (SSD) being tested on usb 3.0 with both a bus powered (powered thru usb) connection and a power block connection?
I don't think there's a difference. But I don't have a drive with both options. Here's a bus powered USB3 drive/case. Oyen makes the case, and it's a Crucial M4 SSD drive rated for 500MBps read and 260MBps write.