M73 Booting from USB 3 128G device

I just got an USB 3 128G flash device. I set it up to be a bootable device, but when placed in the USB 3 ports it doesn't show up as an option with the F12 key pressed. Going into setup it is listed as a device under the bootable options, but it will not move up at all? When placed in the front USB 2 ports, it does show up, and boots just fine, but is then only running at USB 2 speeds, which defeats the goal of have an USB 3 device???
I have a disk imaging program that boots from the flash, but was looking at getting the USB 3 speed. With USB 2 it restores the image of the 160G partition in about 8 minutes. Is there a reason why it will not boot from a usb 3 port??

As an update. I did a restore with booting the M73 from the USB 3 device plugged into the USB 2 port where it would boot from and ran a restore and it took just over 8 minutes to restore the 20+G image backup to the 160G partition. Then did the test again. Boot from the USB 2 port, but then removed the device and replugged it into the USB 3 ports and redid the same restore process. This time it only took 4 minutes 38 seconds, so it makes a big difference in speed.
With the exact same device plugged into USB 3 port it does not show up with the F12 boot menu. Going to the setup, it does should up under the boot devices, but the + key will not move the USB 3 device up to select to boot before the hard disk.

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