WD 3D NAND M.2 Not showing in BIOS

[Gepetto]

I've upgraded the child's PC for Christmas and have put an existing WD 3D NAND 1TB M.2" drive into the Z490F Strix board along with his existing SSD. The board recognises the 2.5" SSD but not the M.2. After some investigation we have changed the SATA port that the SSD is plugged into as apparently this can cause a problem. The M.2 drive is still not being recognised.

I understood that a NAND drive was a different type of Flash memory but it has worked fine in my son's old PC so I'm a bit stumped. If anyone can point us in the right direction it would be appreciated as I'm becoming confused at all the different drive connections. SATA to me is a connector and M.2 is a different connector. The differences between NAND and NVMe are beyond me unfortunately.

 

[Gepetto]

Thank you EsaT, you are an absolute STAR.

On re-reading the spec of the NAND drive it does indeed state that it is a SATA drive. This is not mentioned in the product title but it is mentioned in the description. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. I have moved the M.2 to the 2.1 connector and now it is accessible. I note that the 2.1 connector disables the second SATA port when the M.2 Connector is used in SATA mode, which was the information I had found. The BIOS warned me on boot up.

Speed was not so much an issue in this instance as I figured I would just buy the cheapest 1TB M.2 drive for him because he was running out of space on his 500GB SSD.