Sabrent USB 3 SSD Enclosure Pi4 Boot

Hardware
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TLDR; If you are using this sabrent ssd enclosure you might need to tweak a boot file to fix boot from USB 3 and overall speed degradation. Please read through this post You need to add this to the start of /boot/cmdline.txt after finding your product and vendor ID (aaaa:bbbb).

usb-storage.quirks=aaaa:bbbb:u

I recently migrated from HassOS to a self managed containerized setup, I did this because I wanted to utilize the new boot from USB and remove the SD card completely. At the time of wiriting this HassOS does not support the new Raspberry Pi 4 boot, from my research it looks to be like a upstream issue with Buildroot and their implementation of U-Boot, though I am not an OS person and only poked around a few days so please correct me. I noticed some random sluggishness and also would hang on boot/fail to boot over USB3. Booting from USB2 was ok, but still sluggish once booted. I would also see this in the boot logs

EXT4-fs error (device /dev/sda2): ext4_find_entry:1463

EDIT: The above info is still valid and will get the device working as a USB mass storage device but does not use the UAS drivers which is needed to achieve full throughput. There is a firmware update for the device that allows the adapter to be used WITHOUT applying the quirks and gives UAS driver support. Sabrent UASP Firmware Update I used this tool via a Windows VM and then removed the quirks from the cmdline.txt file and it booted just fine and then showed UAS drivers

pi at HomeAssistant in ~
➜ lsusb -t
/:  Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/4p, 5000M
    |__ Port 1: Dev 2, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=uas, 5000M
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Thanks - I’ve added a link to this from a new wiki post to collate all the adapters people have tried.

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Is this issue only with pi4 or does it apply to pi3. I just did a similar migration to ssd this weekend. Where do I get vendor id from.
Thanks

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I believe it might be Pi4 only, mine was related to USB 3 which Pi3 does not have… And also check the link I posted to the rapsberry Pi forum again, I accidentally copied the wrong link, too many tabs open! You need to comb your dmesg logs to find that info, the post goes through it pretty thoroughly.

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Thanks for the quick reply

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Had the same issue using https://www.amazon.co.uk/FIDECO-M-2-NVME-SSD-Enclosure-Black/dp/B07ZCVGK3N

It was only booting using USB 2 for HassOS whilst it was working fine on USB 3 using the official Raspberry pi OS

Managed to find an update tool from another manufacturer using the same JMS583 chipset and now I’m running hassos_rpi4-64-5.2 successfully on SSD via USB 3.0

Never tried the usb-storage.quirks= fix as I managed with the more permanent fix
Time to set it up again

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The Sabrent firmware update is not only available for the named SSD enclosure but for a whole set of Sabrent devices, including SATA to USB 3.0 adapter cables. Here they are all listed and shown.

After installing the update my Pi 4 with EEPROM firmware 2020-09-03 finally booted from USB in 4 minutes instead of >30 (!) minutes.
BUT: Boot time and transfer rate over USB 3.0 still are inferior to the same device connected through USB 2.

Boot time USB 2: 1.5 min
Boot time USB 3.0: 3.5 min

Displaying the history of 3 days on USB 2 takes about 15 seconds (many entities and graphs shown).
Displaying the same history on USB 3.0 takes far over a minute.