I have the SER8 8745HS. When I connect an external SSD-drive (Crucial 4TB on SATA-USB adapter) to the front USB-port it hangs and becomes unresponsive (Taskmanager shows 100% disk usage, disk cannot be ejected).
When I connect the drive to the back USB 3.2-port it works perfectly fine but then my keyboard (connected to a dongle in the USB-port below) stops working.
I’m assuming this is a motherboard issue with no easy fix, so just reporting.