HP Z240 SFF with HP Z Turbo G2 m.2 PCIe Adapter Card MS-4365 005

[bearhntr]

I was doing to browsing and see that there is a PCIe card which allows for adding an M.2 nVME drive (I believe) to this Z240 SFF that I have.  Questions:

1)  Can the system BOOT from it?  Will any m.2 SSD work in there?  
2)  Can I use this as well as the one on the system board - together?

3)  Is the one on the system board PCIe 3 or 4?  

4)  Does it have to be in a specific slot? 

[NonSequitur777 · Accepted solution]

@bearhntr,

Welcome to our peer-to-peer HP Community Forum!

An HP Z240 SFF was one of my HP legacy upgrade projects, as you can see here: Solved: Upgrading HP Z240 Desktop Workstation SFF - HP Support Community - 8427878.

To answer your questions:

Q1: Yes (#2) and Yes: pick a quality M.2 NVMe Gen3 x4 SSD: a Gen4 M.2 NVMe SSD will run at Gen3 I/O speeds:

Q2: Yes, and that is exactly what I did with this build: HP Z240 SFF Workstation Performance Results - UserBenchmark:

Q3: Both M.2 NVMe SSD installation options are wired for Gen3.  Gen4 M.2 NVMe SSDs will run at Gen3 I/O speeds.

Q4:  Nope [you'll have to use the PCIe x16 (wired as x4) slot]. You can make either M.2 NVMe SSD your primary (boot) drive.

Hope this was helpful.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[bearhntr]

@NonSequitur777

  Thank You for your reply...great information.  

[NonSequitur777]

@bearhntr,

You are welcome!

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777