lampra

Not sure if this is applicable on armbian or if it could fit your case but maybe you could use extroot overlay. Take a look here in the case of openwrt.

Hi, both posts updated with a photo. I bought both cards during 2015 and I now realized that they were manufactured during 2012 and 2013.
When it comes to desktop use (i.e. "not headless"), Toshiba exceria is much more responsive and also much faster with software updates.
If you think that these posts are "useless" even for future reference, let me know and I can delete them.

Thank you for your patience and for the info.
 
Here are the results for Samsung EVO 16GB, brand new (product code is MB-MP16DA/EU).
Tested on Cubietruck  with Armbian_5.07_Bananapipro_Debian_jessie_4.4.6 from the first post (adapted for cubietruck).
Results from pass No 5, 6 & 7.
 
 
 
HW info from armbianmonitor below (due to sprunge overquota)
 
 
 
I will post results for a couple more cards later this week

Update: It seems to me that it is a hardware/kernel issue.
I see that the chip of the StarTech.com USB 3.0 to 2.5†SATA is ASMedia ASM1051.
As described here http://linux-sunxi.org/USB/UAS, ASM1051 is blacklisted on the mainline kernel.
Booting legacy kernel works fine.