See blog posting: Attaching a SSD to the ODD SATA Port in my HP ProLiant Gen8 MicroServer. ( WARNING: I used desktop Seagate drives for my data array in this test setup because that was all I had available at the time – in my long term production environment I ONLY use NAS rated drives. The first thing I did, after clearing out my Gen8 MicroServer to near stock condition, was attach a Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD to the SATA ODD Port (SATA II 3Gbps) while also installing four 3TB Seagate ST3000DM001’s in drive Bays 1 through 4 of my HP ProLiant Gen8 MicroServer. Instead of installing a Server OS on my MicroServer this time I chose to see how a Windows 7 installation would go installed on a single drive RAID0 SSD attached to the ODD SATA Port (SATA II 3Gbps) on the System Board and four 3TB Seagate HDD’s in RAID10 located at the main drive bays (Bays 1 & 2 are SATA III 6Gbps ports while Bays 3 & 4 are SATA II 3Gbps ports). My MicroServer also has four 3TB Seagate ST3000DM001s in Bays 1 & 2 (SATA III 6bps) and Bays 3 & 4 (SATA II 3Gbps). Figure 1 - HP ProLiant Gen8 MicroServer with 256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD attached to ODD SATA (SATA II 3Gbps) Port 5 and powered from 4-pin FDD connector.