M.2 + Sata?

[gent23mj]

So I bought an M.2 to use in a new build.  But my friend just traded me for a Samsung 850 EVO SSD.  So now I have both.  I have the Asus Prime Z270 AR board and will be using a PCIe GFX card.  Can I run both of these?  Ive been told I have to combine them together in some weird way, but I know nothing of that

[Electronics Wizardy]

Yep they work fine. You chipset has anouther 24 pcie lanes for ssds, usb, audio, network and other stuff.

[Nuvi]

What do you mean by combine them together? Perhaps RAID 0? If that's the case have in mind that one drive failure = loss of all data. 
I would say just install de OS in the M.2 drive as it's probably faster and use the SATA SSD for data 

[gent23mj]

On 5/27/2017 at 5:59 PM, Nuvi said:

What do you mean by combine them together? Perhaps RAID 0? If that's the case have in mind that one drive failure = loss of all data. 
I would say just install de OS in the M.2 drive as it's probably faster and use the SATA SSD for data 

No I mean - I was asking if I could just use the m2 for Windows and the larger ssd as just an additional drive. 

 

I was told that I had to configure them to make windows think it was one drive.

 

True or no.

[Nuvi]

You don't HAVE to do it, as you can use it as 2 separate drives, C: would be your windows volume (M.2) and D: your data volume (SSD), you could acess files on both drives without further configuration. If you would like to make windows think it is one drive just search the web for how to create a spanned volume (sometimes called concatenated disk) on your version of windows