Hi All, in the process of building a new home server using a HPE Microserver Gen10 Plus. It has 4 internal bays which will be hosting a mix of 4-8TB SATA drives, however it doesn’t have any other internal SATA ports for additional hosting (like some of the older Microserver models).
I want the O/S to boot off an SSD and I’d rather not sacrifice one of the internal bays and loose a large amount of storage. I had considered a PCIe SATA adaptor but was hoping to keep the PCIe slot free for a possible transcoding GPU. I just thought USB 3.2 speeds even when limited with a SATA adaptor would still yield a considerable speed increase over hosting the O/S on one of the internal SATA drives.
Therefore would anyone know of any way to force a Windows Server install onto a SATA SSD attached via a USB 3.2 port?
Thanks.
I want the O/S to boot off an SSD and I’d rather not sacrifice one of the internal bays and loose a large amount of storage. I had considered a PCIe SATA adaptor but was hoping to keep the PCIe slot free for a possible transcoding GPU. I just thought USB 3.2 speeds even when limited with a SATA adaptor would still yield a considerable speed increase over hosting the O/S on one of the internal SATA drives.
Therefore would anyone know of any way to force a Windows Server install onto a SATA SSD attached via a USB 3.2 port?
Thanks.