mobo support for nvme/sata

[mxk]

I have a MSI b360m mortar picked out to go with my i5-8400, and MSI says that the motherboard has support for nvme and I was looking at a nvme drive but they are pretty expensive. I was looking at a smaller space m.2 ssd and I can't seem to find any sites with the answer to my question; Will the b360m mortar (or just other mobo's with m.2 nvme ports) be backwards compatible with SATA m.2 ssds? If not ill just spring for a nvme m.2 and pay more for better speed.

[Fasauceome]

Modern motherboards are usually good with the M key and the M+B key drives. It's old motherboards that only work with M or B. Although, I don't think I've seen a motherboard that supports B key, so if that's what you mean, you could probably get a SATA 2.5 inch adapter

[airdeano]

most if not all will support the slower SATA interface. so you should be fine on using the SATA m.2 drives.

from the MSI website: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B360M-MORTAR/Specification

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2 x M.2 slots (Key M)

• M2_1 supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 6Gb/s, 2242/ 2260/ 2280/ 22110 storage devices1
• M2_2 supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4, 2242/ 2260/ 2280 storage devices**2
• Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready ,supported on M2_2 3

 

[mxk]

@fasauceome @airdeano 

much thanks, exactly the answers I was looking for (and ill look closer next time airdeano, oops)