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‎05-15-2024 09:44 AM

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Operating System: Linux

Greetings all;

Have recently acquired an HP RP5 Retail System Model 5810 desktop from a seller at my local annual amateur radio and electronics fair. I've subsequently installed Linux Mint 21.3 (MATE) on to the hard drive and (with 8 Gb of RAM on board) it runs very well.

 

Having a peek at the interior,  I've noticed that there is a riser card installed within same which contains two empty PCI Express X1 slots. This being the case, I would like to consider fitting an X1 (M2 NVMe) adapter card along with a (500Gb) M2 NVMe SSD into same?

 

Physically, I can't see an issue with this configuration, but would like to ask the question of the wider community all the same. In addition (assuming that the above is viable), I would like to transfer the Linux distro from the the current hard drive to the SSD and make it bootable - this way I can free up the existing hard drive for storage and significantly speed up the system?

 

Any thoughts and advice would be appreciated.

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