lobstar

Nah, the point I'm trying to make is that Unraid isn't moving with the market. If they aren't moving in this regard, what else is being left on the cutting room floor? Security? I'm trying to follow best practices but I literally need to purchase a separate USB card and pay for new old stock of USB drives just so I can ensure that my niche problem isn't caused by that one tiny ignored issue. I have Gen 3/4 NVME drives coming out of my ears at this point. I'm not trying to brag here but it's literally cheaper for me to just run my Samsung enterprise M.3 drive. Or maybe my 3.2TB Fusion IO PCIE drive? I'd love to find a use for my old 1TB 950 Pro or my unused 1TB 980 Pro ... but instead I'm cornered into wasting yet another PCIE slot just for one USB device. USB 3.0 came out in 2008. We are generations on. This is bordering on Grandpa software. George RR Martin probably is using it for his plex box. My problem is so ridiculous this is what my gaming box looks like. I'm sure I'm not the only hardware addict out there which is why so many of us are in this hobby to begin with. Sorry if it seems over the top but it's a 13 year old problem. The squeaky wheel gets the grease or whatever. Please don't take this post as any sort of disrespect; I truly don't intend to attack any posters or devs. I wouldn't want my product's first step to result in a failure due to off-the-shelf availability of a critical niche piece of hardware. This is currently how I would solve this issue: Remove one of my Dell IT-mode PERC H310s and 52TB of storage and buy this.

The easiest way around this issue that I've found is to just run TrueNAS core. No more need to have some janky usb solution.

I think you miss the point I'm making here: How did we get in such a narrow hardware range? Why has the compatibility not been increased to what you can actually buy off the shelf at an actual retailer?

Just to be clear, this IS the problem

I don't believe my motherboard has any USB 2.0 ports. Further, my destination server doesn't have any either. Are you saying I need a special legacy USB card and drive just for this server? Edit: BTW, thank you for your help I don't mean to sound ungrateful with the question, just surprised.

I have a SanDisk Ultra Fit 256GB USB drive. It's formatted for exFAT@4k with the volume set as 'UNRAID'. Win10, latest updates/patches. I've tried a couple different USB controllers on my machine but it doesn't change the situation. No listed USB devices in the USB creator. Edit: TrueNAS does not require a USB stick and works great.