NAS Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 I/we are looking to collect a list of USB to memory card adapters. unRAID will happily boot of just about any of these which means that the bit that usually breaks (the memory card itself) can be replaced without requesting a new license. The problem is that most of these adapters have one GUID per model/line meaning that you cant license them with unRAID. There is no way to know if the GUID is unique without physically having a device to test and it is not practical for me to buy 50 of them to test. This thread is a long term effort to find the perfect unRAID USB to memory card adapter. Ultimately it will make unRAID even more reliable. Update: Summary listed here http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/USB_Card_Readers Feel free to edit and fix the formatting. Quote Link to comment
NAS Posted October 9, 2012 Author Share Posted October 9, 2012 PROBABLY According to this thread http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=6185.msg161627#msg161627 this is the first device I have found that is valid: Kingston MobileLiteG2 - Card reader ( SD, MS PRO Duo, microSD, SDHC, MS Micro, microSDHC, Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo ) - Hi-Speed USB Update: Seems some fakes exist that look identical but dont have a unique GUID Quote Link to comment
NAS Posted October 9, 2012 Author Share Posted October 9, 2012 NO Lexar Mobile Card Reader and Adaptor Kit (LRWM01USBEUA) Quote Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 I would much rather prefer to have unRAID check that the GUID is connected rather forcing it to be mounted on /boot. This way if it does have format issues, you can still leave it connected while your machine runs. Possibly booting from the cache or a partition on the cache drive. Quote Link to comment
NAS Posted October 10, 2012 Author Share Posted October 10, 2012 I absolutely agree that what unRAID should do is check the licence/GUID fromm one key but boot from another medium. This way it doesn't matter how much you hammer your flash drive as the GUID would be almost untouched and RO on an alternative key But thats in the hands of the gods.... this USB adaptor thing is in the realm of the mortal users to be able to sort out. And both could compliment each other anyway Quote Link to comment
PeterB Posted November 2, 2012 Share Posted November 2, 2012 Kingston MobileLiteG2 - Card reader ( SD, MS PRO Duo, microSD, SDHC, MS Micro, microSDHC, Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo ) - Hi-Speed USB This is the one I'm using, with an SD card. It has a slide-out cover to protect the flash card. The only concerns are about its size - firstly, it may obstruct adjacent ports - secondly, it is quite heavy which, if unsupported, may result in a poor connection at the usb port. I have already had one occasion when the machine failed to find the boot device, requiring a 'jiggle' to get it working again. It has just occurred to me that both of these shortcomings could be addressed by using one of the short male-female usb leads, and strapping the reader to a nearby fixing point. I will give this a try in the morning. Quote Link to comment
Kantal Posted November 12, 2012 Share Posted November 12, 2012 Hi. I have two of this Dont tested them, but they seems to have different serialnumbers. It reads MicroSD and Sony´s M2 Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 I absolutely agree that what unRAID should do is check the licence/GUID fromm one key but boot from another medium. This way it doesn't matter how much you hammer your flash drive as the GUID would be almost untouched and RO on an alternative key You can boot from ANY device. It is not necessary for it to be the one labeled UNRAID. There is at least one post on the forum where a user described how they use two flash drives, and one is just for the GUID check. Found it: See this thread for how one user boots from one flash drive, but uses the second "official UNRAID" one for the license check. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3846.msg34018#msg34018 Basically, you boot from one flash drive labeled FLASH Then, unRAID mounts the flash labeled as UNRAID at /boot, but you then use the mount --move option to move it out of the way, and move the other into place at /boot. Joe L. Quote Link to comment
NAS Posted December 16, 2012 Author Share Posted December 16, 2012 Joe nice one. The details in that post do seem to make it possible and relatively trivial to have two USB keys for boot. I will try this ASAP because if it is reliable as it suggests it make ultimate sense to me. Quote Link to comment
NAS Posted June 23, 2014 Author Share Posted June 23, 2014 NO ...kingston FCR-MRG2, this DOES boot but the guid is NOT unique, although at first glance the guid looks valid, as it is neither all zero's or a number sequence. http://www.amazon.co.uk/KINGSTON-FCR-MRG2-MicroSD-Reader-Generation/dp/B0028R3NCU Quote Link to comment
dmacias Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 I had a usb reader and class 6 or 10 micro sd til it was blacklisted. Now have a cruzer fit. Not much difference. It's painful to load all those dependencies especially if you have apache, xbmc, deluge. It's another reason I was happy for vm's. Most systems I have won't boot from usb3 and then you'd need the drivers loaded. Quote Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Maybe we need to fork this off and speak to limetech about an alternative location on the cache drive. Quote Link to comment
NAS Posted June 24, 2014 Author Share Posted June 24, 2014 Maybe we need to fork this off and speak to limetech about an alternative location on the cache drive. yah keen to discuss as many options as possible but want to keep this thread clean just on devices if possible Quote Link to comment
binhex Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 just to chime in the Kingston MobileLiteG2 does indeed work fine for me, been running with this for just over a year now with no issues, i have heard reported issues of the newer usb 3.0 version of this NOT working correctly though, possibly due to motherboard and/or unraid driver support for usb 3.0, link:- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Technology-Multi-Card-Reader/dp/B007PFQ0PC Quote Link to comment
eroz Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 just to chime in the Kingston MobileLiteG2 does indeed work fine for me, been running with this for just over a year now with no issues, i have heard reported issues of the newer usb 3.0 version of this NOT working correctly though, possibly due to motherboard and/or unraid driver support for usb 3.0, link:- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Technology-Multi-Card-Reader/dp/B007PFQ0PC That is the one I have. It works but only one of the slots, I don't remember which. Quote Link to comment
NAS Posted August 22, 2014 Author Share Posted August 22, 2014 Another one for the no list. http://www.lexar.com/products/lexar-high-performance-microsdhc-microsdxc-uhs-i-cards-633x Quote Link to comment
NAS Posted August 22, 2014 Author Share Posted August 22, 2014 Sd only no micro sd To clarify what does that mean it exactly? Quote Link to comment
bnevets27 Posted August 23, 2014 Share Posted August 23, 2014 Sd only no micro sd To clarify what does that mean it exactly? I think he got it backwards, from what I recall on mine. The Kingston will only work on the micro SD slot. The SD slot doesn't work correctly. Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
Thornwood Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 I use several of these. The g2 will boot only from the SD slot if you want to use a micro as you will need a micro SD to ds card adapter. The g3 is black listed but if you want a free version it does boot but only to the micro SD slot. I hope I am more understandable. By the way it is not that they just won't boot it is that the Unraid name on the drive is not available causing a error that won't let Unraid run correctly. If you place a SD and a micro sd and try it you will see what I mean. Have a great day Thornwood Quote Link to comment
StevenD Posted October 23, 2014 Share Posted October 23, 2014 Anybody using the Kingston G4 yet? The G3s are getting hard to find. http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-MobileLite-Multi-Function-FCR-MLG4/dp/B00KX4TORI Quote Link to comment
WeeboTech Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Wintec Filemate - GUID is not unique Quote Link to comment
MyKroFt Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Anybody using the Kingston G4 yet? The G3s are getting hard to find. http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-MobileLite-Multi-Function-FCR-MLG4/dp/B00KX4TORI Asked on Amazon and got: After consulting with Kingston Support, the answers are: 1) Yes. It has it's unique GUID 2) No, it cannot boot from any of the two ports Kingston Technology U.S. Sales Support - End User +1 (800) 835-6575 U.S./Canada Technical Support +1 (800) 435-0640 +1 (714) 435-2639 Quote Link to comment
nars Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 One more for the no list: Transcend TS-RDP5W I did got hands on 2 units and both with same GUID. Quote Link to comment
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