February 8, 20242 yr If this is in the wrong place please feel free to move it. I've been using unraid since 2018 and have loved it since day 1 compared to the old Transparent Raid system I used before. I wanted to share a recent experience I've had that may or may not be an issue for someone. I've had 0 issues running my servers with the flash drive in the onboard USB 3 slot for years now. Well either because of the BIOS update or the OS update all of a sudden I was having issues with the flash drive booting up and right away disappearing in unraid. I tried many things including moving it to other USB 3 ports and still the issue persisted. Windows would say that there was an issue with the drive when I plugged it in and so I would allow Windows to "fix it", but the problem would remain and the drive would once again disappear upon booting the system up. I even got to the point that I replaced the drive so my original is now blacklisted, but still the problem would persist. Fast forward to a few days of lost sleep messing with this and going crazy as it would occasionally work and then stop working after a reboot. I realized that all of the ports except for 2 on the front of my PC were USB 3. I moved the flash drive to the USB 2 port in the front and all of a sudden everything worked fine like it had for years. This got me to the point where I remembered seeing something about seeing USB 3 compatibility issues with unraid, but since it was never an issue for me I just eliminated it as the problem. Guess between either the MB firmware update or the OS update or the combo of both it has now become an issue. All is now well with a couple of USB 2.0 ports installed to the USB 2.0 MB header. I ended up having to also move my UPS to the other port because it too had stopped communicating on the same USB 3 port that it has used for years. If you ever run into a problem with the USB after some updates then save yourself a few sleepless nights and make sure you are using a USB 2 port even if the USB 3 had worked before. I just want to say thanks to the community here because if it hadn't been for some similar posts about unraid not liking USB 3 I think I might still be trying to figure out why the server isn't working. This is a great product and an awesome community! Thanks to everyone that spends time trying to help others here.
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