Z97 - E nvme support

[Joao Machado]

So i have a z97 - e motherboard with a gtx 1080 ti and a Xonar DGX sound card. I kinda of confused with the storage situation and all the names there are. I want to upgrade to an SSD M.2 2280 Samsung 960 Evo 500GB TLC V-NAND NVMe and i want to know if i will take full advantage of that ssd or if my mobo doesn't support it .
I looked up the asus mobo page but i find it very confusing .

 

[Deleted member 217926]

It only has a 10Gb/s M2 slot. A full speed M2 slot is 32Gb/s. Also I see no mention of NVMe support. So you can use a 960 Evo but only at half speed and not as a boot drive. It would be limited to storage. Not worth it.

 

[SinxarKnights]

It supports NVMe and its bootable. You will need to make sure your BIOS is updated to at least version 0702 but I recommend making sure its fully up to date. However anort3 is correct it is only 10GB/s so there is a lot of wasted potential there.