Quick Question Before Buying?

[PatZ1989]

Hello, just a quick question for any wise bods, as far as I can see the below M.2 SSD should work with this motherboard but i thought i was double check with you lovely people before pressing buy?

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-214-SA

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-304-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=3078

And then ofcourse a delicious skylake processsor to sit in there

Thanks anyone who replies <3

 

[Bickaxe]

Going by the description, yes

 

[PatZ1989]

Should be fine right? there was just a note about NVMe "Mini-SAS" SSds needing an additional card to be used but as far as I can see, while it is NVMe it isn't Mini-SAS etc

 

[Bickaxe]

Thats correct. If you had Mini-SAS, you would need the extra card

Storage

• Intel® Z170 Express Chipset
• 6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports* (4 ports reserved for SATAe)
• 2 x M.2 slot*
- Supports PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 6Gb/s standards,4.2cm/ 6cm/ 8cm length M.2 SSD cards
- Supports PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe Mini-SAS SSD with Turbo U.2 Host Card**

• 2 x SATAe port (PCIe 3.0 x2) ***
• Supports Intel® Smart Response Technology for Intel Core™ processors

* M.2, SATA and SATAe ports maximum support 1x M.2_PCIe + 6x SATAs or 1x M.2_SATA + 1x M.2_PCIe + 4x SATAs.
** The Turbo U.2 Host Card is not included, please purchase separately.
*** SATAe port is backward compatible with SATA.

But you don't need to worry about that

 

[PatZ1989]

Sweet, thanks for the advice