What storage fits my motherboard?

[LilWhiteChris]

Can anyone clarify if the following situations would work? Thanks!

Scenario 1) Asus - ROG MAXIMUS X CODE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
With TWO Samsung - 960 EVO 1TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drives

Senario 2) Asus - ROG MAXIMUS X CODE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
With ONE Samsung - 960 EVO 1TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
& ONE Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive

I know you cannot occupy the same PCIE lanes with a m.2 and SSD as they are shared, so providing they are on different ones it should work right. This board must support more than one type of memory?

 

[Evvvvv]

Can anyone clarify if the following situations would work? Thanks!

Scenario 1) Asus - ROG MAXIMUS X CODE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
With TWO Samsung - 960 EVO 1TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drives

Senario 2) Asus - ROG MAXIMUS X CODE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
With ONE Samsung - 960 EVO 1TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive
& ONE Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive

I know you cannot occupy the same PCIE lanes with a m.2 and SSD as they are shared, so providing they are on different ones it should work right. This board must support more than one type of memory?

Both work to my knowledge.

 

[Rdslw]

yes each mobo will have few options of storage, not really need to stay on either sata or M.2
I would go for second option as it should be cheaper and evo 850 is still nice fast drive.
have you considered like 4 TB HDD ?
I cannot access the asus website but it shoudl allow 2 M.2 and 6 SATA drives if I remember.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Both configurations are possible.
M.2_1 slot supports SATA and PCIE devices,
M.2_2 slot supports PCIE devices only.
(850 evo is sata device, 960 evo is pcie device)

If you wanted to use 2x M.2 850 evo drives, this would be problematic (without additional adapters).

BTW -SATA device in M.2_1 will disable SATA_1 port on motherboard.
PCIE device in M.2_2 will disable ports SATA_5 and SATA_6.