Server motherboards must show provenance from a working machine. Physical inspection on arrival — check for bent or broken pins. The number one problem is physical damage from bad packaging. Consider shipping inside a chassis for protection and always include shipping insurance. Key checks: Physical inspection for bent/broken pins.
#1 problem: physical damage from bad packaging
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
M.2 is a solid-state drive (SSD) form factor primarily used as an operating system boot solution. Lenovo ThinkSystem servers support M.2 drives with the addition of a supported M.2 adapter.<br><br>The M.2 drives install into an M.2 adapter which in turn is installed in a dedicated slot on the system board of the ThinkSystem server. With two M.2 drives configured, the drives are configured by default as a RAID-1 mirrored pair for redundancy.<br><br>There are two M.2 adapters supported:<br>- Single M.2 Adapter, which supports one M.2 drive; available as the ThinkSystem M.2 Enablement Kit<br>- Dual M.2 Adapter, which supports one or two M.2 drives; available as the ThinkSystem M.2 with Mirroring Enablement Kit