[SOLVED] Should I worry about a M.2 ssd disabling two sata ports?

[Dendd]

I'm building a new pc and am getting the MSI b450 Tomahawk Max(it has 6 sata ports). Apparently if I try to use a M.2 ssd in my build two sata ports are disabled. For storage, all I will be using is the M.2 ssd and two other storages that use sata. Should I even worry about this? Will I be fine without two? (The M.2 ssd is the Western Digital Blue 250 GB M.2-2280 SSD. The other storage is the Samsung 860 Evo 1 TB 2.5" SSD, and some random 1TB HD from walmart).

 

[popatim]

Nothing to worry about there.

 

[Dendd]

Nothing to worry about there.

I will go ahead with what I have planned. Thank you!

 

[seanwebster]

As long as you don’t need to use them, then you’re good. For my system, I use the two extra sata ports and not the m.2 port Because I got and use a bunch of higher capacity sata SSDs for the bulk of my storage rather than high capacity m.2s.

 

[Dendd]

As long as you don’t need to use them, then you’re good. For my system, I use the two extra sata ports and not the m.2 port Because I got and use a bunch of higher capacity sata SSDs for the bulk of my storage rather than high capacity m.2s.

No, I actually switched out my motherboard to the B550 coming out soon, and it has two M.2 Ports. I will be using two NVME M.2 ssd's instead of the sata. But I will use one sata port for my current Hard Drive. The new motherboard still has 6 sata ports. So I think I will be fine. Thank you!