Greetings once again Balders! I'll try and answer your questions from my current knowledge.
1. Basically, yes. HBS cannot create a BOOTable ext media on anything that is not considered a portable device by the OS. USB connected HDDs/SSDs are considered "Local Disks" by the OS, not portable devices.
2. Not at all. Their response says "up to 32gB," not a minimum of. That is a requirement of an EFI partition which is required for BOOTing an UEFI-based System. Usually that partition on a BOOTable System disk is about 100mB or so... Hasleo is using that same partition to house their Emergency Disk media (a WIM file) for BOOTing purposes. The actual required space for their most recent Emergency Disk is (along with the required UEFI BOOTing environment) about 375mB. Based on that you could easily use a 1gB UFD for your Emergency Disk.
Their additional info just states that if you use a very large UFD for your recovery media, anything beyond the 32gB of FAT32 needed for their use may be alternately partitioned into any type of formatted storage you would like to use.
3. (explained above)
As far as their documentation is concerned... I won't jump on that issue
1. Basically, yes. HBS cannot create a BOOTable ext media on anything that is not considered a portable device by the OS. USB connected HDDs/SSDs are considered "Local Disks" by the OS, not portable devices.
2. Not at all. Their response says "up to 32gB," not a minimum of. That is a requirement of an EFI partition which is required for BOOTing an UEFI-based System. Usually that partition on a BOOTable System disk is about 100mB or so... Hasleo is using that same partition to house their Emergency Disk media (a WIM file) for BOOTing purposes. The actual required space for their most recent Emergency Disk is (along with the required UEFI BOOTing environment) about 375mB. Based on that you could easily use a 1gB UFD for your Emergency Disk.
Their additional info just states that if you use a very large UFD for your recovery media, anything beyond the 32gB of FAT32 needed for their use may be alternately partitioned into any type of formatted storage you would like to use.
3. (explained above)
As far as their documentation is concerned... I won't jump on that issue