Questions tagged [usb3]
USB 3.0 is the third generation of USB connectivity, and is many times faster than the previous USB 2.0. No model of the Raspberry Pi supports this higher transfer speed "SuperSpeed", but appliances offer USB 2.0 backward compatibility to be operated with the Raspberry Pi.
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Powering from my PC's USB 3.0 port
The specs for my PC's motherboard don't mention any upper or lower limit for its built-in USB 3.0 ports.
What is the minimum current that any (standards compliant) built-in USB 3.0 port should be ...
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SATA 3 SSD too slow on raspberry pi 4, even with external power
I have a Pi 4B (with latest firmware upgrade) running Raspbian Buster and a 2TB SSD with a SATA 3 interface. I'm using a SATA 3 to USB 3 converter that can also connect to external power when ...
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Issues installing RTL8812BU WIFI driver on Raspberry Pi 4 B
Recently, I bought a USB3 WiFi adapter with the RTL8812BU chip (Supports Linux).
I have spent 5 hours so far trying to install the Linux driver for the chip on my Raspberry Pi 4.
Apparently, I am not ...
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USB 3.0 OTG on Raspberry Pi 4 (USB gadget)
Raspberry Pi 4 can do USB OTG via the USB-C connector (according to this answer) - but only at USB 2.0 speeds since the USB-C connector only connects to USB 2.0 lanes.
My question is - can Pi 4 also ...
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Getting IO errors while connecting a HDD to a RPi4 when using USB 3.0 but not when using USB 2
for a few weeks now, I have been suffering with the following problem:
I wanted to set up a NAS with a Raspberry Pi 4 and two WD Red, running ubuntu server, since the RPi 4 finally supports USB 3.0.
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Raspberry Pi 4 only boots from SSD over USB 2.0, but not over USB 3.0 [duplicate]
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4 GB of RAM which I want to boot from SSD (Samsung 850 EVO 120 GB).
I have installed the most recent EEPROM and believe it is configured correctly:
BCM2711 detected ...
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not sure what type of m.2 ssd to adfd to my Pi 4
I'm new to Raspberry Pi. I'm still confused after online research about what type of SSD to add to my Pi 4B with 4G. I'm planning to use it as either a media server or a home automation server running ...
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RPi rev 2 and USB powered harddrive
I am getting my RasperryPi Rev2 soon, and I plan to use it as a media centre. I have a WesternDigital Elements 1TB USB3 2.5" USB powered external harddrive. I know that a normal USB port outputs 500mA,...
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What's your experience in improving memory management (Swap on NVMe/SSD, zram, zswap)?
I've got an NVMe SSD attached (via USB 3 port) to my Raspberry Pi and wonder what's the best (and still relatively easy) way to configure it for memory demanding applications (like Geth), assuming ...
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Raspberry Raid 0 gains
I'm currently using the Pi overclocked to 1GHz on Archlinux running deluge and samba which access a 3TB external USB drive.
I plan on buying another identical drive and set it up as a raid 0 ...
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raspberry pi 4 suddenly won't recognize nvme on USB3 port
I'm running ubuntu 20.10 arm64 on Raspberry Pi 4b. I was booting from a western digital NVMe drive in a USB-to-NVMe adapter/enclosure thing attached to the USB3 port. This has been working fine for ...
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Hosting LAMP on SD-card in RPi now - would like to move whole database and website to External USB 3.0 SSD
.I am hosting this website on the RPi 4 - 4GB Ram model.
I'm guessing the google PageSpeed insights ranking score is kinda ok right now (it ranges in the middel with a score of 56) - try and test it ...
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Persistently increase usbfs_memory_mb on RPI4 running Ubuntu 19
I am working with a 4gb RaspberryPI4 and it's running a USB3 Flir Blackfly. Out of the box, the setting of usbcore.usbfs_memory_mb @ 16 isn't enough to get a stream from the camera. Increasing the ...
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Raspberry Pi USB 3 HAT or alternatives
I am looking for a cheap way to utilize USB 3.0 speeds for my external peripherals. The latest Pi 3 model B still has USB 2.0 ports and from what I have read, until USB 3.0 prices fall, it will be a ...
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Is it possible to physically upgrade either model's USB ports from USB 2.0 to USB 3.0?
Would the build not recognize the difference or be capable of supporting the USB 3.0 speeds? If problems arise, would the issue sit with software, hardware, or another area?
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USB3 drive and Pi Zero
I'm trying to connect a 3.5" drive to a Pi Zero. However, the drive is not detected by the Pi:
pi@lolcat:~ $ dmesg | grep sd
[ 0.913523] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
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Raspberry Pi4 USB3 / SSD going to sleep
I have a raspberry pi4 that is booting from SD card and then using an external NVME SSD via USB3 as the root partition. (I couldn't get it to boot from the SSD, which is why I am still using the SD ...
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External drive /dev/sdX label changes
Two external hard drives (USB powered) are initially connected to a Raspberry Pi 4B via the two USB 3.0 ports and they have the following block ids: /dev/sda, /dev/sdb.
I used mdadm to create a RADI0 ...
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The Blue USB's are the 3.0's, am I right?
I have to be sure, in order to connect my SDD properly: There are 4 USB-A connectors in pairs of 2 on my RPi4. The blue ones are 3.0 and the black ones 2.0?
Can anyone confirm this?
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What are the expected write speed for external storage connected to USB 3 (blue) on Raspberry Pi 4 B
I am using an enclosure that has the JMicron JMS567 SATA 6Gb/s bridge as a controller.
I am also using the My Book Duo which has a WD controller.
Both report same speeds.
File systems are ext4.
Both ...
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No devices listed in OMV: RPi3+RPiOS+USB-3 SSD
I have a Raspberry Pi 3b running the latest version of OpenMediaVault, which I installed using the official-ish script onto a clean and updated Raspberry-Pi OS installation that I created with ...
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Raspberry Pi loses connection when external drive is plugged in
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I have a USB-C Samsung external drive. I bought a USB-A adapter adapter for it so that I can plug it into my new Raspberry Pi 4. It is running Raspbian OS with the latest updates. My Pi ...
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raspberry pi 4 with usb 3 adapter to sata harddrive write slower than usual
I have a 2.5 inch SATA HDD hooked up to a UGREEN USB 3 to SATA connector.
The HDD is formatted as NTFS.
On my Windows PC I get write speeds of about 80 MBytes/s.
I am running OMV on the Pi 4.
On ...
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Why does USB3 cable work with Pi 2, but not Pi 3?
I have two PIs: Pi 2 Model B v1.1, and Pi 3 Model B.
Both Pis are running with defaults. Also, both Pis are each powered by a 2A supply.
I also have an externally powered hard drive dock that ...
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CM4 + NVME + PCIe-USB3 adapter
I'm working on my carrier board, and my goals are to have NVME and USB3 ports and of course the USB2 OTG native to the BCM2711 all along side each other. I want fast disk io, which is done with the ...
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CM4 USB 3.0 Peripheral/Gadget Mode
The CM4 can be a USB 2.0 peripheral using OTG, but USB 3.0 (or higher) is not natively supported by the Broadcom chip. For the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B+, the VL805-Q6 chip provides USB 3.0 host ports ...
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Raspberry pi 4 USB 3 ports not working
i experienced some serious problems with my Raspberry Pi 4 regarding my USB 3.0 ports.
I was using the raspberry as a server (torrents, ftps, http etc...).
To store the data i opted for a 1Tb usb hdd ...
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USB 3 device appears to be listed on the wrong bus
Environment: Pi 4, 2gig, Buster, updated.
We have a USB 3 WiFi adapter (blue plug), which is plugged into one of the blue USB3 slots. The device vid/pid is: 0bda:b812, Realtek. Rated 867Mbps for ...
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Pi-4b USB 3 no longer recognising Powered USB HDD Dock
TL:DR: Previously working setup now fails with no apparent hardware damage, nor deliberate software changes.
My original setup had been working without problem since Sep 2019.
I powered it down, ...
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Storage device interface through MIPI CSI+DSI connections
So I love the Raspberry Pi and currently own and use a model 3b (not plus) for learning more about linux and hardware as well as simple projects like a DNS cache server. Lately I was thinking about ...
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Fast Copy from Raspi 3 to USB?
I have a small script which continuously logs data to my Raspi3 (kinda a data logger).I am writing all the collected data in to a plain txt file. My Pi logs data for a month or two continuously. So ...
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USB camera not identified
I have a laptop camera wired to a USB cable. This camera works properly on my Ubuntu laptop. However, it does not on the pi.
I have a Raspberry PI 4 (4GB) with Raspbian OS lite installed.
I installed ...
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Will SD-card in an RPi 4 always be faster than USB 3.0 writing/reading to an installed web-server?
Setup: RPi 4 with LAMP on IT sucks DK
My SD card is quite quick sure (it's a Class 10 too and all) but my question is this:
Would there be increased performance if I hosted my web-server files on a ...
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How do i delete a flash drive with a raspberry pi 4?
So i accidentally got loads of stuff on my flash drive, and i want to delete all that stuff, and i can delete it file by file but that would take forever, i tried deleting folder by folder instead but ...
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Sub-optimal Samba speeds (for external NTFS HDD)
So, I'm trying to setup a Samba share on my R Pi 4 for my home network. I'd really like it it be Samba because at lease 1 Win10 machine is involved.
The setup is as follows:
External USB 3 HDD is ...
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PI4 - no boot from usb3 samsung t5
The steps I have done is:
Update/upgrade to the latest Raspberry Pi OS (sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade-full)
Update the eeprom firmware (rpi-eeprom-update)
Clone the SD card using /...
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Performance of OS install on SD vs USB 3
I was wondering if I should think about installing the OS on a USB 3.0 stick and using the USB 3.0 port rather than the Class 10 Micro SD card to enhance read/write speeds.
Is there a performance ...
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Raspberry pi and rs232
I am working on a small project for work. I am trying to figure out if you can connect 3-4 RS232 to USB ports to the raspberry pi. I would like to gather information from a digital micrometer and a ...
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Pi 5 vs. Pi 4 and External HDD
If I lsusb I see my portable hard drives. If I fdisk -l I do not. More concerning, when I listen closely to the drives that are plugged in, I hear them cycling every few seconds. I have a 5 amp ...
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Understanding USB in Raspberry Pi Model 4
I encounter issues when reading from 2 cameras simultaneously in Raspberry Pi 4.
I connected an RGB camera to the USB3.0 port and another B/W camera to USB2.0 since cameras would be disconnected when ...
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All Superspeed USB peripherals connected to Raspberry Pi 4 shows up as USB 2
I'm running the official Raspberry Pi OS on Raspberry Pi 4B - 8GB RAM, whenever a USB 3 capable device is plugged into the USB 3 ports, it enumerates as USB 2.
OS Details:
Release date: February ...
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Raspberry PI4 usb 3.0 seems not working properly [duplicate]
I am using a Raspberry PI4 with Google Coral TPU and a Telit Lte modem both attached on USB 3.0 ports. I get a lot of "Under-Voltage" messages also using the Raspberry power supply(5.1V, 3A)...
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SATA-to-USB adapter turns off HDMI output
When plugging in an SSD via SATA-to-USB adapter, it turns off HDMI output but I can still SSH into the pi. What is the issue?
Model: Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB
OS: Debian Bullseye aarch64
Kernel: 5.10.83-v8+
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Raspberry Pi4 USB3 SSD
I have tried different SATA-SSDs with USB to SATA connectors.
Afar from the multiple questions in this forum my question is quite simple:
Why do connectors with SSDs work flowlessly on one desktop and ...
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formatting SSD as ext4 becomes corrupted, superblock
I want my Pi4b to mount an external ssd (connected by usb3), and have some new drives that came formatted exfat. Since I need symlinks and other advantages of ext4, I change the partition type to 83, ...
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Can RaspberryPi 4 output display on USB 3 port?
I have multi-computer setup with couple of Windows, a RaspberryPi 2, and a Mac. I use a Dell D6000 docking station which can connect computers on USB C and USB B 3. Unfortunately for my Pi2, I always ...
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Raspi not 'accepting' JUH340 USB Hub. (Raspbian OS)
Easily, not too many people have asked a question about this model of usb hub.
What I'm attempting to use is a J5 CREATE JUH340 USB 3.0 with the RPi, but it is highly unworkable. With most everything ...
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USB 3.0 Raspberry Pi 4 B data rate
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 B.
When I plug the ethernet cable to the ethernet connection, I get speeds close to 1 Gbps as expected.
Nevertheless, when I plug an USB3.0 cable I get a maximum of 400 Mbps ...