SATA Vs NVME Slot & Difference

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2 Slot It can offer the fastest boot or data access thru the NVMe SSD and at the same time provide very fast storage through the SATA SSD

While the connector can be used for PCIe SSDs, the ones here are SATA 6Gbs only, so the benefits over standard SATA drives are to do with 2 NVMe SSD, you'll want to use a matching NVMe-compatible slot before anything else This will allow your NVMe SSD to perform at its fullest

link 99 slot Yet there are 5 SATA ports in the bios…and the M2 stick is showing up in that 5th port That much makes sense to me The 'problem' is -or- If I install only 1x 970 Evo plus NVMe drive in an slot how many SATA ports will be disabled?