Agree with this statement. As of this month so far, the Asia sat has the least amount of bandwidth used for my node (located in USA). As discussed and explained in many other threads, the geolocation will end up playing a big part in node usage.
See image below for my node bandwidth usage for this month by satellite:
Also, there was a short discussion on type of drive connection type and type of drive in this other thread and ultimately the USB 3.0 vs SATA difference is negligible at best on that basis alone, but there are many potential bottle neck points in the data paths.