Does unRAID support USB for testing? Does FlexRAID? Anyone else?

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I am thinking about building a NAS, but before I commit the money, I'd like to try each product on an older system using cheap USB thumb drives to simulate disk failures, upgrading disks, adding disks, etc.

Do any of the popular DIY NAS software packages support USB disks?
 
Well, flexRAID should. From their site: "Furthermore, FlexRAID is not limited to hard disks as it can pool data from all accessible sources including removable media, external storage, network shares, LUNs, disk arrays, etc." Removable media.

By the way, what's with the final "18"? That's the second post today I've seen that signs off with 18.