I have been given a “headless” Surface Pro 4 with a skylake chip, because the battery had swelled and my friend wanted his data rescued. Ive done so and he kindly let me keep this now “headless” surface. I understand that with only PCIe M.2 slot, I can only run an NVMe drive in it. With that said, Im hoping I can use this to replace my broadwell laptop that currently runs Supervisor, as the broadwell chip doesnt decode H265. But, the Google Coral I use for frigate is in PCIe form factor, so I will have to either set the boot drive via USB or the built in slot.
My question is, if its possible to reliably use the Google Coral over an Nvme to USB adapter? The surface is limited to USB 3.0 so Im not sure if it will have enough bandwidth to even support such an ambition. But, is it possible? Or should I try something different? Any ideas and pointers will be awesome! Thank you!
No, i don’t believe so
Someone on reddit did try almost every pcie to usb adapter but none of them worked
Something to do with it gets mounted as storage
Well, I tried it, and even before trying the coral in the pcie slot, I realized that it simply wasnt gonna work. For starters, there is no uefi entry for power on ac connect, so it already defeats the purpose of using it as a headless server. I do not have a UPS, so it wasnt gonna work. USB 3 storage speeds are… fine, but it was noticeably problematic.
Either way, an old surface will not work as a Hass server unfortunately. Thanks for you input that saved me a ton of time!
