M2 drive question

[FBi7]

Hi folks,

I currently have one of these as my C drive: https://www.westerndigital.com/en-gb/products/internal-drives/wd-green-sata-m-2-ssd?sku=WDS240G3G0B

I'm about to upgrade to an Asus TUF X670E Plus. I would like to reuse the WD as my new C drive. The new board has 4 x M2 slots ( 1 x PCIe 5.0, 2 x PCIe 4.0 and 1 x PCIe 3.0/SATA) and 4 x SATA ports. If I plug the M2 into the PCIe 3.0/SATA slot, I lose 2 of the SATA ports, which I can't afford to lose.

If I plug my M2 into any other of the PCIe slots, will the drive be recognised/function correctly?

I suspect not, I don't really want to be buying another M2.

Cheers,

FB..

 

[chrislip]

I',m not going on experience here so I may be wrong, however I've looked at the spec of the board and have found the following:

M.2_2 slot (Key M), type 2242/2260/2280/22110 (supports PCIe 3.0 x4 & SATA modes)**
M.2_4 slot (Key M), type 2242/2260/2280 (supports PCIe 4.0 x4 mode)
4 x SATA 6Gb/s ports
*AMD RAID Xpert Technology supports both NVMe RAID 0/1/10 and SATA RAID 0/1/10.
** M.2_2 slot shares bandwidth with SATA6G_1&2. When M.2_2 runs at PCIe x4 mode, SATA6G_1&2 will be disabled.
From this it looks like as you will be running the slot in SATA mode it shouldn't disable the 2 SATA ports, this is only when running in PCIe-4 so I think you should be ok

I wouldn't think that the other slots would support that drive as it is SATA, and it isn't specifically mentioned

 

[FBi7]

When M.2_2 runs at PCIe x4 mode, SATA6G_1&2 will be disabled.

Thanks for your reply. I should've paid more attention to this when I read it I lose 2 SATA ports on my current board with the M2 plugged in, so thought it might be the same with the new board. I will eventually get all M2 drives, need to save the pennies for that though.

Cheers again,

FB..