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We've been using SATA (ADATA or Transcend 2,5" SSD's), but a much neater solution would be to use a PCIe SSD (M.2 SSD + PCIe adapter).

We've tried M.2 WD Green SSD's as wel as M.2 Kingston SSD's. Both to no avail. The interesting fact is, when I use an M.2 -> Sata adapter and an Sata -> USB adapter, it can actually boot fine.

When I use the above configuration (M.2->Sata->USB) boot-repair-disk has the option to repair the boot, but with the M.2->PCIe I do not get this option. Also see (http://paste.ubuntu.com/p/jpKWMP8RMY/).

Before I throw this idea into the bin, I would like to know if the HP DL360 Gen9 has any chance of booting from a PCIe SSD and possibly why not.

SSD's used:

  • WDS120G1G0B-00RC30
  • SM2280S3G2/120g

Adapter used (they look oddly similiar):

  • Lindy M.2 SSD to PCIe Adapter Card
  • StarTech x4 PCI Express to M.2 PCIe SSD adapter
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It appears that the HP DL360 Gen9 and most likely other HP ProLiant servers suffer from the issue that they do not work with "B&M Key" M.2 SSD's.

These SSD's seem to use SATA or PCIe 2x (which aren't very well supported/standardised). I've actually used NVMe (PCIe 4x) SSD's, they seem to work very well!

The SSD actually shows up in the "HP Storage Management Utility" and as a boot option in UEFI. I however, from memory recall that this didn't work on the HP MicroServer (cube server)

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I bought two PCIe adapters from Aliexpress and dropped two Samsung 970 EVO Plus (1TB) on it. My machines are able to boot from that without problems.

Check for a BIOS update.

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