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Hardware Installation
Installation Notices for the M.2 and SATA Connectors:
The availability of the SATA connectors may be affected by the type of device installed in the M.2 sockets.
The M2A_SB connector shares bandwidth with the SATA3 1 and the M2M_SB connector shares bandwidth
with the SATA3 4, 5 connectors. Refer to the following tables for details.
• M2M_SB:
SATA3 0 SATA3 1 SATA3 2 SATA3 3 SATA3 4 SATA3 5
M.2 SATA SSD
a a a a
r r
M.2 PCIe SSD
a a a a
r r
No M.2 SSD Installed
a a a a a a
a: Available, r: Not available
Connector
Type of
M.2 SSD
• M2P_CPU
(Note)
:
SATA3 0 SATA3 1 SATA3 2 SATA3 3 SATA3 4 SATA3 5
M.2 PCIe SSD*
a a a a a a
No M.2 SSD Installed
a a a a a a
a: Available, r: Not available
* The M2P_CPU connector supports only PCIe SSDs.
Connector
Type of
M.2 SSD
• M2A_SB:
SATA3 0 SATA3 1 SATA3 2 SATA3 3 SATA3 4 SATA3 5
M.2 SATA SSD
a
r
a a a a
M.2 PCIe SSD
a a a a a a
No M.2 SSD Installed
a a a a a a
a: Available, r: Not available
Connector
Type of
M.2 SSD
(Note) Supported by 11th Generation processors only.