The only officially supported NVMe drives are Kingston NV2s and Curcial P2/P3s.

We have also noticed some newer Gen4 drives are not compatible and this is a hardware issue. Our custom SSD drive adapter for this board is only designed for 2x PCIe Gen 2 lanes.

There is no need to buy higher end NVMe drives for this system as its a waste, they will either fail because they draw to much power, or newer Gen4 pcie protocol is incompatible with our hardware.

We are currently sourcing Kingston NV3 drives, but only one type with a certain controller works with our system, they have two types with a different controller that does not work.

Also I know 660GB/1TB seems like the drive is almost full, but bitcoin is growing at about 100GB/Y even in its current maxed out full blocks state. 1TB drives have at least 2-3 years of life left, and 2TB drives will literally last the life of the system at over 10 years.

2TB is boarderline overkill, 1TB will last enough where you can get a 2TB for half the cost in 2 years.
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Does a Gen 3 drive work? Specifically a Crucial P3 Gen 3 x 4
model# CT2000P3SSD8

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I successfully installled a 2TB Samsung SSD 980 Pro on my Apollo BTC which works with smooth temperature.
Apollo support team confirmed most low end M.2 SSD drives will work. They do not recommend to buy higher versions as the Apollo can't take advantage of faster link speeds (sometimes will not work due to power requirements -> The Apollo BTC controller is rated for 3A at 3.3V so max is around 10 watts acc. to them).  They have tested Kingston and Crucial drives with their Apollo systems.


Other questions:
- For the (very unproble case) that my Apollo Solo Miner will maybe find a block in the future somewhen, where would this be shown in the Apollo 2.0.6 Web-IF?
- Anyone knows why Apollo miners use private MAC addresses?