2 Types of SSDs: SATA and NVMe

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Supports 7th 6th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors; Dual Channel DDR4, 2 DIMMs; Ultra-Fast with PCIe Gen2 x2 & SATA mode support; 8-channel HD Audio

Bought myself 2 NVMe M2 drives The Gigabyte motherboard has 3 slots available, marked M2A_CPU, M2B_SB and M2C_SB I guess M2A_CPU has is a slot that can interface with SATA , PCI Express

regle poker texas You probably have a 10th gen CPU? In that case, M2_1 is inactive This first slot gets PCIe x4 lanes directly from the CPU, 2 drives aren't connected to a motherboard via a cable, they're instead plugged directly into the motherboard using a dedicated connector