Gathrail

Found this table in the manual and have no clue what it is trying to tell me. I must be getting old. *edit* The SSD is indeed plugged into the 1st sata port which effectively turns of at least one if not the rest (5) from recognizing any drives. Question: Is there any difference concerning performance when dealing with different sata ports on this motherboard? If so, which port other than the 1st should I plug it into? Msi.com and the manual are of no help at this juncture.

I'm not even sure about the ssd being m.2...this is all new tech to me

I am losing what's left of my mind. I just recently built myself a new pc since my Alienware (I had the money, then) is now 10 years old. I will do my best listing the components in my new build. CPU = i5 9600k RAM = 16GB (8+2) 2666 GPU = AMD RX 580 8GB Storage = 1TB Samsung 860 Evo PSU = EVGA 750 watt 80+ Gold Now for what is giving me a massive headache. Only the primary drive (the samsung ssd/boot drive) is being recognized in both the bios and the device manager. I have tried installing a (internal) Western Digital Black 2TB and another at 4TB. I have also tried external drives that use the usb 3.0 interface. None of these drives will appear in any way, shape or form. I think I have tried 5-6 different hdd/ssd and still only the boot drive is the only one being recognized. I am currently going through the MSI FAQ section which is 60+ pages of 20 topics per page to try and find a solution (MSI Customer Service is incredibly hard to find and contact. Still trying on that front as well). If I do find a fix I will immediately post my success here. If you have any questions for me, I will be checking this post VERY often! Thank you for your time *Currently reading mb manual since I am not fully knowledgeable on m.2 / ssd / nvme interactions with the mb*