Reddit reviews Toptekits 2 Port USB 3.0 A Female Screw Panel Mount to Motherboard 20 Pin Flat Cable Cord by Toptekits 1.6ft/0.5m
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Toptekits Dual Port USB 3.0 Female Screw Mount Panel Type to Motherboard 20 Pin Flat Cable 1.6ft/50cm
I straight up removed it from the front of my old PC case hahah
Yea, I was having trouble finding ones that I can use for this purpose, but I found these on Amazon that I was considering before having the bright idea of just ripping them out of my old case:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010NBLRHK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Note that these are for a USB 3.0 header. I couldn't find anything similar for USB 2.0
Flash drives and SSD's are almost exactly the same technology. There is really very little difference in the two if you buy a quality flash drive. I use the flash memory plugin on my SSD. I'm not sure it's 100% required since most SSD's support TRIM, but it doesn't hurt anything.
If you don't want to have your flash drive hanging outside the case.. and you have an internal motherboard header.. you can get a cable to plug the flash drive right into the header.... Obviously you would probably lose an external USB port, but it would protect against someone just snatching the flash drive out of your NAS. That is always my chief concern with external flash drives for the OS. To easy for someone to be looking for a flash drive, "find" the one on your server, then when windows can't write to it, formatting it and maybe not even realize what they done (if they aren't tech savvy)
For USB 2.0
https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-Motherboard-4-Pin-Header-USBMBADAPT/dp/B000IV6S9S/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=usb+flash+drive+header+cable&qid=1564302415&s=gateway&sr=8-3
For USB 3.0 Headers
https://www.amazon.com/Female-Screw-Panel-Mount-Motherboard/dp/B010NBLRHK/ref=mp_s_a_1_14?keywords=usb+flash+drive+header+cable&qid=1564302415&s=gateway&sr=8-14
May be you can replace the USB2 ports with one of these.
https://www.amazon.com/Female-Screw-Panel-Mount-Motherboard/dp/B010NBLRHK
https://www.amazon.com/CGTime-Port-Panel-Mount-Cable/dp/B01IBXZ1HO
https://www.amazon.com/Port-Panel-Mount-USB-Cable/dp/B006PHY0GM