M.2 SSD with PCIe Adapter

[Dan141]

Dear Community!

I would like to upgrade my SSD. I thought about adding a M.2 SSD (NVMe)to my setup, but I'm not sure if my system can later boot from this. It would be inside a PCIe adapter. Bios is up to date (02.39 Rev.A). At the moment I still boot from my "regular" SATA ssd, but I would like to have a faster storage 🙂 Mainboard has no M.2 connector built in, that's why I want to use a PCIe Extention card for M.2.
Maybe someone has the answer to that 🙂

Greetings!

[Grzwacz]

Greetings,

Welcome to the forum.

I am not a HP employee.

A PC which has no M.2 sockets on the motherboard may not boot to an NVME SSD connected to a PCIe adapter.

No BIOS support for booting to PCie NVME drives.

The NVME SSD should work as a data drive.

One last item, your PC's chipset supports PCIe 2.0. A  PCIe 3.0 x4 NVME SSD should be faster than a SATA SSD but you do have the PCIe bottleneck.

Regards