NVMe drive on z97 MB?

[aardvark]

Hey guys, quick question:

i have a z97 motherboard, and while it has an M2 port, it knocks out some sata ports, so the questions is this - if i get one of those pci express cards and stick a sabrent rocket in it will it just work?

Mostly as a fast game drive, but is there also the possibility to make it a boot drive and clone over windows?

cheers

 

[aardvark]

its a gigabyte z97x sli

 

[aardvark]

yeah i was just reading the msi webpage - i can't find the mb manual atm as i moved recently and its boxed up somewhere.

all my sata ports are full and using the m2 socket knocks out 2 of the sata ports.
apparently if i use the other pci express it knocks the x16 of my graphics card down to x8