Adding M.2 Drive & SATA HDD with X99E-ITX/AC

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   I have the X99E-ITX/AC motherboard running Windows 10 on a Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" SSD.  I just bought an M.2 SSD (Crucial/Micron M500 480GB, MTFDDAV480MAV) and a 2TB 3.5" HDD for backup.
I don't see this SSD listed on the supported storage list:  https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/X99E-ITXac/index.asp#Storage 

Can I just plug these in and use them as secondary/tertiary drives or is there any UEFI setup I have to do?  I don't really want to migrate my OS off of my current drive, I just want these for added capacity.

Thanks!

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Jon Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 26 Apr 2015 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 142	Post Options Post Reply Quote Jon Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Adding M.2 Drive & SATA HDD with X99E-ITX/AC Posted: 17 Feb 2018 at 6:21am
	I have the X99E-ITX/AC motherboard running Windows 10 on a Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" SSD. I just bought an M.2 SSD (Crucial/Micron M500 480GB, MTFDDAV480MAV) and a 2TB 3.5" HDD for backup. I don't see this SSD listed on the supported storage list: https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/X99E-ITXac/index.asp#Storage Can I just plug these in and use them as secondary/tertiary drives or is there any UEFI setup I have to do? I don't really want to migrate my OS off of my current drive, I just want these for added capacity. Thanks!
	ASRock X99E-ITX/ac \| Intel i7-5820K \| ASUS GTX 970 mini \| Samsung 850 EVO 250GB \| Crucial Ballistix (2x8GB) \| Corsair CX600M \| CoolerMaster Seidon 120V \| CoolerMaster Elite 110 \| Windows 10 64-bit

Jon Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 26 Apr 2015 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 142	Post Options Post Reply Quote Jon Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Feb 2018 at 10:47am
	Update: I have installed both of the new drives and have them working now. I didn't have to do anything in the UEFI, the original Samsung SSD remained as the only boot device. I had to restart once before the 2TB drive appeared in Windows. The M.2 drive showed in Device Manager but not as a drive I could use. I had to go to Disk Management and choose either MBR or GPT as a partition type on the M.2 drive. After doing that I could format it NTFS and choose a drive letter for it.
	ASRock X99E-ITX/ac \| Intel i7-5820K \| ASUS GTX 970 mini \| Samsung 850 EVO 250GB \| Crucial Ballistix (2x8GB) \| Corsair CX600M \| CoolerMaster Seidon 120V \| CoolerMaster Elite 110 \| Windows 10 64-bit