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I also recently built a supermicro 1541 system w/ samsung evo 970 nvme, along with lasted ESXi, and didn't have any issues with the drive. edit: you just have to make sure your bios options are set correctly.

Thanks for this heads up! Saw this yesterday, after having purchased 3 about 1.5 weeks ago for $199 each. Went to the store I bought them at for a $130 credit for the price drop :)

I picked up 3, thanks for the heads up!

There's a new bios for the supermicro X10SDV series that is supposed to make M.2 SSDs bootable (specifically samsung SM951, and likely XP941). They just emailed me about it months after my initial email about there being a bug with it. I guess that's better than never emailing me.

This guys site is the source of those ESXI drivers, ect. VMware Front Experience This is what I used when I was messing with it a while back: VMware Front Experience: How to make your unsupported SATA AHCI Controller work with ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 But the thread you linked is more straightforward...

I bought mine here: X10SDV-F-O Supermicro Intel Xeon D-1540/ DDR4/ SATA3&USB3.0/ 2GbE/ Mini-ITX Motherboard & CPU Combo - Motherboards - CPU on Board - SuperBiiz.com

Supermicro never even replied to my email. Oh well... guess I'll have to wait until someone with connections to complain to them.

Yeah, I agree on it being new, and things needing to be worked out. But these issues have been around for a while now - probably over a year. Here's an interesting article: Samsung XP941 & Plextor PX-G256 M6e M.2 Qualification - Puget Custom Computers If you scroll down to the "Motherboard...

Yeah, I was a little confused about UEFI. I know there are options to boot off usb, hardrives, ect, in UEFI, in the boot tab. And I thought I tried them all. I had had it set to dual, with UEFI listed first, then legacy next for each device type. I just now set it to UEFI only, and redid the...

Dunno, but most issues relating to M.2. SSD's are related to the BIOS and getting the manufacturer to add the proper support. The previous system I was playing with, the asrock E3C224D4I-14S, had issues booting M.2. SSDs as well. I opened a ticket and got the basic canned responses. So then I...

I'll let you know once I get my system sorted out. I have them up and running, but not really doing much until I swap this system in place of my old one and move a ton of data to it.

I finally got exsi to install to my xp941 w/ the X10SDV-F, but it wouldn't boot off it. The bios doesn't even seem to know that the M2 SSD exists... so it's likely not supported in the current bios.

Okay, thanks for the reply. I know it's possible on some systems with these samsung M2 SSDs (they don't have option roms). I was just curious since I've tried a bunch of things in attempt to get it to work as a boot drive. I just updated the bios, but got the same results... so looks like I'll...

Out of curiosity, are you booting off your SM951? I'm using a X10SDV-F motherboard. I have an XP941, and can't get ESXI or Windows 8.1 to install to it. I can boot esxi off usb and use it as a datastore (using a custom iso w/ the sata .vib additions). ESXI won't see it at installation, and...

I ordered 4 x 5TB today for my unas system. Price / TB seemed too good to pass up, although I read these were on sale at microcenter for $140 about a month ago.