hp microserver gen8 boot from internal usb

I've also noticed oddities with the NC360t hacksawed to a x1 port. Or is it? 512gb samsung 840 pro with 30% OP might cost more! SAS SSD which cost $1/gb on the ebay market (hp 400gb sas $400] sure. I do not recommend using the P410 with sata ssd. Well especially when you can get a $25 DL180/160/SE1120 motherboard on ebay, couple of L5639's and work out some creative cooling (got water?) to do a similar workload, the cramped space in the microserver is ridiculous, it is way too hot for home use with a decent raid controller and ram expansion is iffy - only a few modules with the right bios will consistently do 16gb otherwise you'll get the 8/16gb flip flop on boot. Other than being cool, which the new Gen8 is far cooler, I do not think it is the best spend these days. The cost is rather high for what you get. This unit is so underpowered cpu wise i'd rather just go buy the big version aka ml110 g7 which has the same 4 hot ports standard, and a real cpu and ram. Booting off a cheap 50gb SLC drive gives you the ability to log and use portions of the disk for esxi caching should you want!

SATA to SATA is faster than SAS card to SATA. With the 6 usable (hacked firmware) internal sata ports, and raid card option, one might wish to consider the options here.

I did not have a problem sourcing the cable for the P400 but as I said it is probably going to be more expensive than the p410 after the cable and time to wait sourcing where as the P410 uses a standard cable/placement. It is the only safe way other than using say a cheap slc 50gb drive (oddly cheaper than a 2gb slc usb stick) but adds the whole sata dependency. Yes! I always use HP SLC 2GB sticks for ESXi.

Hp microserver gen8 boot from internal usb