Windows 11 Storage Spaces USB Drive array - moving to a new computer

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BrooklynFire

I have a Mediasonic 4-bay USB Drive enclosure that holds 4 x 4TB Seagate Drives. I have configured them to create a Storage Spaces pool with my Windows 11 computer. This pool is 14.5TB in size (and I am using 8.48TB of it currently). When the Drives enclosure is connected to the computer with a short USB 3.1 cable it works fine. I can optimize it, I can read / write files to it - it's perfect. However - if I connect it with a LONG USB cable (and I have tried 3 different cables between the length of 8 - 12 feet), the Storage Spaces does not show up, instead there is a "Unknown USB Device (Port

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