Truth: SMBIOS is discovery, not booting. You can run an NVMe drive on an SMBIOS 2.6 system if the BIOS has a UEFI option ROM or if you use a bootloader like Clover.
| | Key Focus | Year | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | 2.4 | Added support for 64-bit addresses | 2006 | | 2.6 | Added support for UEFI, PCI Express 2.0, and improved memory arrays | 2008 | | 2.7 | Added support for processor overclocking and hardware security | 2010 | | 3.0 | Introduced 64-bit SMBIOS entries | 2015 |
SMBIOS 2.6 introduces several significant features, including:
Large enterprises with mixed hardware use SMBIOS version as a filter. If your asset database shows SMBIOS 2.6 at the top for a server, you know:
