HP elitedesk 800 g2 bood drive question

[bob3r]

Hello,

I don't know if it was already posted as I am blind or there is no search option?

I've just got licanse for HexOS and was very exited so I got myself HP EliteDesk 800 SSfG2 i5-6600, 16 GB RAM. I am planing to use it for photo backups and 1080p plex to livingroom TV. I was just playing around with it updating BIOS etc. as I don't have my invite yet and waiting for drives. I've noticed that it don't have M.2 slot ( I know I should double check it), I've checked documenation and it got 3 x SATA 3.0 I was planing to put 2 storage drives + boot drive. How much of impact it will have if I use normal SSD? Plus I was thinking about PCI-E extention but not sure if it will support boot from it as I can't find information about it. I would apreasiate inside about it.

[ysuissa]

you won't feel the difference, maybe a couple seconds at boot time, but that's negligible since a server is supposedly on 24/7 anyway

if you run out of sata ports you could always buy a cheap PCIE to sata (or PCIE to nvme) adapter off aliexpress (depending on what you get you MAY be band limited, so do your research before buying!)

[syko]

As above ,  you won't see any difference ..

I have the 800 G3 7500 ( year younger than yours)  and was  able to use a PCIe M.2 card without any issues, a long with 2.5gb NIC 

i ran truenas from it - for a little while back using just a Sata SSD with out problems.. 

mine has the M.2 slot and was able to use the  M.2 slot and PCIe M.2 card together as a cache  drive  for truenas

with a sata boot drive .... and two HDD's 

 

My M.2 slot is right at the back under the lift up tray ( HDD's) im guessing you have looked under there to see iif there is a Slot for a M.2 , 

or it may not have been introduced  yet on you Mobo  

you can get quite a bit out  with these little SFF Pc's