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    Posted: 16 Aug 2019 at 12:14am
Yeah I meant the motherboard to buy......the Evo is in my NVMe port on my Gigabyte 970FX, my be it is the 960 then, not at home so cannot check.

I thought the NGFF had 2 notches as shown in the manual that's why I was confused , ok it will be fine in the main slot, will a NVMe drive work in the Sata M.2 or do I need a Sata SSD M.2?

Thanks for the reply.
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Originally posted by eatmybogbrush eatmybogbrush wrote:

I'm stumped, it looks an M key type, I have a Samsung 860 Evo NVMe SSD I want to use but don't want to buy it and get it wrong.

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You own this SSD but don't want to pay for it?   

All the mainboards have M.2 (also named NGFF) ports.

Samsung 860 Evo is no NVMe SSD, this is a SATA III M.2 SSD and will not work in M2_1 on this board (like the spec says).

I would take a Samsung 960 or 970 Evo NVMe SSD for the M2_1 port to get the full PCIe Gen3x4 speed.

But if you already own the 860 Evo, you have to use the M2_2 port.
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Hi,

Can anyone tell me if the AB350M Pro has M key or NGFF M.2 sockets, as the spec say M key and the manual says NGFF......I'm stumped, it looks an M key type, I have a Samsung 860 Evo NVMe SSD I want to use but don't want to buy it and get it wrong.

Also if I use the second M.2 it disables the Sata 3, I take it there is more Sata ports I can use to connect my 4TB storage HDD.

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