Asus H97I-Plus. Maximum no. of SSDs supported?

[martinlest]

You'd think I could find this after a few minutes Googling, but I didn't! My incompetence at Googling stuff, I have no doubt.

Can anyone tell me how many internal connectors (SATA 3 ports I guess???) this M/B has for adding SSDs (all Samsung Evo 850s or 860s)? I tried opening up the PC (midi format), but the CPU cooler and wiring makes it hard even to see the motherboard, let alone see anything meaningful on it.


Thanks!

 

[DRagor]

4 SATA ports and 1 M.2 port that supports both SATA and PCIe drive.

 

[USAFRet]

You'd think I could find this after a few minutes Googling, but I didn't! My incompetence at Googling stuff, I have no doubt.

Can anyone tell me how many connectors (SATA 3 ports I guess) this M/B has suitable for SSDs (all Samsung Evo 850s or 860s)? I tried opening up the PC (midi format), but the CPU cooler and wiring makes it hard even to see the motherboard, let alone see anything meaningful on it.


Thanks!

Directly from the specs:
https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/H97IPLUS/specifications/
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1 x M.2 Socket 3, with M Key, type 2260/2280 storage devices support (both SATA & PCIE mode)
4 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), gray
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So, 4 x SATA SSD's.
5 if you put in an m.2 drive.

 

[martinlest]

That was quick! Thanks.

and 1 M.2 port that supports both SATA and PCIe drive

I think that I should not connect an Evo 860 to the M2 port - the Evo doesn't support M2 I thought? Or have I got that wrong somehow?

 

[DRagor]

Evo 860 exist in both forms. But if you have SATA version, then you cannot connect it to M.2 port.

 

[martinlest]

OK, thanks.