m.2 slot vs sata: If a board disables SATA3 ports when an M2 slot is used, will ... . Mainboard MSI Z370-A PRO (LGA1151v2-CoffeeLake). What Is an NVMe Slot and What Does It Look Like?.
The motherboard M.
2 slot #3 shares bandwidth with SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports. When the M.2
slot is populated, two SATA 6.0 Gb/s ports are disabled.
* M.2 and SATA ports maximum support 1x M.2 PCIe SSD + 1x M.2 SATA SSD + 5x SATA HDDs. Please refer the manual for M.2
slots with examples of various ...
This appears to say that a M.2 SATA drive can work in an M.2
NVMe slot, but an M.2 NVMe drive won’t work in an M.2 SATA slot. Have I got this right?