I have an Asus PRIME Z270-A motherboard and I'm using all 6 SATA ports (1 SSD, 4 mechanical drives, 1 optical drive). I also have a Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 1050Ti 4GB graphics card.
I'm looking at buying the Samsung 960 Evo M.2 SSD.
Initially I planned to connect it via 1 of the 2 M.2 slots built into the motherboard. However, 1 of the M.2 ports will disable 2 of the SATA ports (no good) if running at x4 speed and the other M.2 port I believe will be ok because it is a PCIe M.2 drive. If it was a SATA M.2 drive it would disable 1 of the SATA ports.
So if the above do end up disabling SATA ports, the alternative is to buy a M.2 adaptor card that plugs into a PCIe connector on the motherboard. Question here is what lanes does this use? I'm aware that the graphics card currently uses 16 of the 16 GPU lanes, but will an M.2 adaptor card use GPU lanes (because it's connected via a PCIe port) or some of the 'other' lanes?
I'm looking at buying the Samsung 960 Evo M.2 SSD.
Initially I planned to connect it via 1 of the 2 M.2 slots built into the motherboard. However, 1 of the M.2 ports will disable 2 of the SATA ports (no good) if running at x4 speed and the other M.2 port I believe will be ok because it is a PCIe M.2 drive. If it was a SATA M.2 drive it would disable 1 of the SATA ports.
So if the above do end up disabling SATA ports, the alternative is to buy a M.2 adaptor card that plugs into a PCIe connector on the motherboard. Question here is what lanes does this use? I'm aware that the graphics card currently uses 16 of the 16 GPU lanes, but will an M.2 adaptor card use GPU lanes (because it's connected via a PCIe port) or some of the 'other' lanes?
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