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Cannot use M.2 SATA drive

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Topic: Cannot use M.2 SATA drive

Posted By: SuarezTheGreat
Subject: Cannot use M.2 SATA drive
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2019 at 10:52am

When I tried to add WDS250G2B0B to M2_2, no detect in BIOS or Win10.
However, I change a NVMe 970EVO to M2_2 and work.
So, M2_2 really doesn't support SATA M.2 drives?

Replies:

Posted By: SuarezTheGreat
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2019 at 4:10pm

X470 taichi, sorry

Posted By: ASRock_TSD
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2019 at 4:21pm

Dear SuarezTheGreat,

Greetings, this is ASRock TSD.

Regarding your question, X470 Taichi M2_2 slot only support M Key type 2230/2242/2260/2280 M.2 PCI Express module up to Gen2 x4 (20 Gb/s).
M.2 SATA SSD only works at M2_1 slot.

Please refer to the detail specification from below link.
https://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/X470%20Taichi/index.asp#Specification

Thanks!

All the best,
ASRock TSD

Posted By: brkkab123
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2019 at 5:38pm

He's correct I was in the same situation as you when I recently built my pc with the X470 Taichi Ultimate.
I put my Samsung 850 EVO m.2 ssd in m.2 slot 2 and it wasn't recodnized.
I put it in m.2 slot 1 and it works fine.

Posted By: SuarezTheGreat
Date Posted: 19 Apr 2019 at 12:08pm

Thanks all, my problem is solved.
Love ASRock!!!