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Does anyone know if the QFX-5100 USB port supports 3.0 speeds? The question comes from a desire to boot from image recovery media as quickly as possible.

Hi smicker,

Yes the USB 3.0 should work as QFX5100 supports 2.0 and later:

https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/release-independent/junos/topics/reference/specifications/port-qfx3500-usb.html

Have the USB FAT-32 formatted, that should work.

Also, if trying recovery, then from the “Select a recovery image”/GNU, if we select the GRUB and follow the Junos recovery procedure with format Junos data disk and format Junos config disk, that should work.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
-r.

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My question is if it supports 3.0 speeds. Supporting 2.0 devices or later is true of all USB 2.0 ports as well.

To answer my own question, and in case this information is useful to anyone else:

The USB ports appear to be 2.0:

usb1: EHCI version 1.0
usb1: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> on ehci0
usb1: USB revision 2.0

Data transfer speeds to a 3.0 device overall showed higher throughput than to a 2.0 device, but not dramatically so. Regardless, total time to restore from a USB install image was identical whether using 2.0 or 3.0: 7 minutes 40 seconds.