My motherboard specs for hard drives are as follows.
On-Board SATA
• Intel® Z170 Express Chipset
• 6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports*
• Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10 for SATA storage devices
• 1 x M.2 Key M Socket supports type 2280/2260/2242 storage devices in both PCIE Gen3 x4 & SATA mode*
- Supports PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe Mini-SAS SSD with Turbo U.2 Host Card**
• 2 x SATAe port (PCIe 3.0 x2)***
• Supports Intel® Smart Response Technology for Intel Core™ processors.
* SATA1~2 ports will be unavailable when installing the M.2 SATA interface module in M.2 slot. SATA3~4 ports will be unavailable when installing the M.2 PCIe interface module in M.2 slot.
** The Turbo U.2 Host Card is not included, please purchase separately.
*** SATAe port is backward compatible with SATA.
I currently have one SSD: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB, and quite frankly I need more room to install games on. Of the current generation of SSD drives, is there something my computer can handle that can go 2TB or more? I know there are faster SSDs now that use a different format than PCIe 3.0, but that's what I'm stuck with at the moment. Any insights would be appreciated.
On-Board SATA
• Intel® Z170 Express Chipset
• 6 x SATA 6Gb/s ports*
• Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10 for SATA storage devices
• 1 x M.2 Key M Socket supports type 2280/2260/2242 storage devices in both PCIE Gen3 x4 & SATA mode*
- Supports PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe Mini-SAS SSD with Turbo U.2 Host Card**
• 2 x SATAe port (PCIe 3.0 x2)***
• Supports Intel® Smart Response Technology for Intel Core™ processors.
* SATA1~2 ports will be unavailable when installing the M.2 SATA interface module in M.2 slot. SATA3~4 ports will be unavailable when installing the M.2 PCIe interface module in M.2 slot.
** The Turbo U.2 Host Card is not included, please purchase separately.
*** SATAe port is backward compatible with SATA.
I currently have one SSD: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB, and quite frankly I need more room to install games on. Of the current generation of SSD drives, is there something my computer can handle that can go 2TB or more? I know there are faster SSDs now that use a different format than PCIe 3.0, but that's what I'm stuck with at the moment. Any insights would be appreciated.