The p300 supports booting from an SSD PCIE NVMe adapter?

Hello

I think I have a samsung 950 pro with an ssd PCIe adapter to start windows 10 on a thinkstation P300 (Machine type 30AG, e3-1281 processor v3 with latest bios-22/06/2016 FBKTC6AUS).

Will this work?

THIS MARKET! (Sorry for the caps, but I'm so excited.)

I have installed the 950 pro in a pcie adapter, put it in the P300, installed the driver Samsung NVMe, initialized and formatted the disc (in the GPT, which is the same as my previous drive C) and then downloaded samsung data migration. I migrated my previous drive C to the new 950 pro, then shutting down my computer. I've detached from the old C drive, rebooted and went into the bios (F1) and I put the pro 950 (under 'other devices') # 1 start order.*

It starts in windows 10 beautifully, as if she was made to do so; no hiccups, it simply works.

Although NVMe readers are not officially supported on the P300, Samsung somehow got to work. I strongly suspect that it has to do with the pro Samsung 950 ROM option, which resides in the SSD and not on the computer, which allows you to start.

* Make sure you just under "other devices" the 950 pro is the only drive listed. I have a data esata drive connected to my computer and the 950 pro as well as my data disk appears under the heading "other devices." at the start, my computer complains that no operating system is found. However, if I turn off my esata drive before starting, the p300 boots perfectly. I just turn on my esata after that I'm on windows.

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