Corsair USB 3.0 Flash Voyager Drives: EXT4 vs. NTFS vs. Btrfs vs. F2FS

Should you happen to be running an SQLite database off your flash drive for some reason like if using Firefox/Thunderbird or another application using this embedded database system, EXT4 was the fastest from the Corsair USB 3.0 Flash Voyager followed by F2FS. Many times slower than all of the Linux-native file-systems was the FUSE-based NTFS file-system for Linux.

When running the Flexible I/O Tester, NTFS came out ahead but clearly it's behavior is different than the other file-systems... The results of NTFS are impossible for this flash drive with these FIO test cases, likely due to the Linux NTFS driver not honoring some fsync requests or the like. So ignore the NTFS results for FIO.

Between Btrfs, F2FS, and EXT4 for these disk benchmarks, it was a close race with the Flash Voyager being rather stressed.