Purchasing even used SAS drives for HP Enterprise/Dell/Lenovo servers are really pricey so looking for a inexpensive alternative storage system I decided to try this PCIe X16 M.2 expansion board. About $38.00 for the adapter and has worked well on all my various motherboards, test motherboards and my HP DL360p 1U server running Windows Server 2016.
I wanted the storage for VMs and was pleases overall in the performance of the VMs.
Here is the link to the Amazon site: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BJ163KY?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
There are other of these type boards available. Please let me know in the comments if you try something else and your experience.
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