Is my m.2 Sata?

[NicholasNicholasNicholas]

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B350M-PRO-VDH/Specification

I have 2 hard drives and 2 SATA SSDs. If I get an m.2 SSD would it disable one of my SATA ports? I assume this motherboard is too cheap and too old to have a proper NVME m.2 port, but I dont know if it will eat up a SATA port.  

[WhitetailAni]

Installing an M.2 SSD (SATA or NVMe, it doesn't matter) will disable 2 SATA ports. Your motherboard manual will tell you which ones.

[NicholasNicholasNicholas]

21 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

Installing an M.2 SSD (SATA or NVMe, it doesn't matter) will disable 2 SATA ports. Your motherboard manual will tell you which ones.

oh. crap. That is really unfortunate. Is there a way to split a sata port? Or a way to have usb 3 to sata? Would that be full speed?

[WhitetailAni]

Upgrade to an X370/X470/X570 board, as X-series chipsets don't do this.

You can also get a PCIe card with SATA ports on it.

[NicholasNicholasNicholas]

Just now, ragnarok0273 said:

Upgrade to an X370/X470/X570 board, as X-series chipsets don't do this.

You can also get a PCIe card with SATA ports on it.

I only have 1 pcie port unfortunately. is USB to SATA slower?

[svmlegacy]

Everyone, RTFM...

 

Your M.2 port supports PCIe and SATA. NVMe is supported as well, and can be assumed on DDR4 motherboards, if the M.2 port supports PCIe.

 

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No sata ports are disabled by the M.2 Port.

[NicholasNicholasNicholas]

2 minutes ago, svmlegacy said:

Everyone, RTFM...

 

Your M.2 port supports PCIe and SATA. NVMe is supported as well, and can be assumed on DDR4 motherboards, if the M.2 port supports PCIe.

 

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No sata ports are disabled by the M.2 Port.

Thank you. I saw that but I had no idea what it meant.