First Truens build need some advice with start and future proofing

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@expansionsmanager

"The motherboard doesn’t support manual bifurcation settings, you can’t use a dual M.2 adapter card on the board, or at least, only 1 drive will be detected.

Not true. It works with AOC-SLG3-2M2

Supermicro X11SSM-F fails to boot if SSDs are installed

Hello and thanks for the help, System: Motherboard: Supermicro X11SSM-F Rev 1.01 with BIOS v3.3 (05/20/2024) (USED) CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1275 v5 Quad Core 3.6 GHz with 4.0 GHz Turbo (USED) RAM: 64GB Kingston 2133MHz DDR4 (ECC) (USED) Power Supply: Seasonic FOCUS V3 GX-1000 1000W 80+ Gold ATX Fully Modular PSU (NEW) Case: Fractal Design Node 804 Micro-ATX Computer Case (Windowed, Black) (NEW) Add-on card: Supermicro AOC-SLG3-2M2 with two 64GB Optane M.2 NVMe SSDs (NEW) No Hard Drives ins…

Advice swapping x11ssh-f to x11ssm-f

No idea about other cards.

@expansionsmanager

Aside from this, most NVMe drives also won’t work as boot drive on this motherboard

I do not know but if you have doubts then Ryzen will do fine