So, this is somewhat just a curiosity question at the moment. Being bored, I started wondering if I dropped an nvme drive into a USB adapter, and connected that to my Xbox, if it would be any faster.
MY system is a Dell Precision T5610, which I like very much, but doesn't have onboard nVME slots. No big deal, I got a PCIe adapter and put in an m.2 nVME drive into it. Works great (OS is win8.1) but ...