M.2 SSD Vendor Support List

[elmanificodidw]

Hey guys! I wanted to upgrade my system by slapping an SSD in it and decided to check Asrock's support list. My motherboard is an ASRock B660M-HDV, and here is the list of supported SSDs.
I noticed an inconsistency between the two lists Asrock has. Basically "Hyper M.2 SSD (CPU)" slot seems to support some SSDs while "Ultra M.2_SSD Module" slot seems to support some others. But why is that? And should I even care? I'm looking for a boot SSD around 500GB or 1TB tops, and I'm cheap. Should I interpret the vendor's support list as a list of drives "tested and guaranteed to work, but others may work as well - just don't come cry to us if they don't" or as a definitive "These and ONLY these drives will work on this motherboard"?

[Tan3l6]

Never heard of incompatibility with certain MoBo's and SSD-s to be honest

But there probably might be, just very rare cases.

[porina]

It is often the case that CPU connected M.2 connectors are PCIe drives only (NVMe), but chipset can also support SATA ones. For a modern board chances are any NVMe should work.

[elmanificodidw]

4 minutes ago, porina said:

It is often the case that CPU connected M.2 connectors are PCIe drives only (NVMe), but chipset can also support SATA ones. For a modern board chances are any NVMe should work.

Yeah, this might be the case since SSDs in the CPU list are either PCIe3 or 4, no SATA3.
This makes me guess that I'm good as long as I buy a PCIe3 or 4 SSD.

 

 

36 minutes ago, Tan3l6 said:

Never heard of incompatibility with certain MoBo's and SSD-s to be honest

But there probably might be, just very rare cases.

Me neither. I just wanted to see if my board is PCIe3 or PCIe4, that's why I checked.