Author: wardog
Subject: Z270 Taichi
Posted: 19 Jan 2017 at 4:35am
In short, to have a RAID6 array span all the Intel SATA ports and use an M.2 "stick as your boot drive, the M.2 stick will HAVE to be mounted to an M.2 PCIe adapted card and used in an available x8(?4?) PCIE slot.
Again, see my post above this one. The SATA board mounted M.2 combinations/exceptions are laid out there.
These have no relation to PCIe M.2 adapter card. The PCIe slots and the motherboard mounted Ultra M.2 slots have no relation to each other as far as available lanes.
As parsec said in his post above this, if you are to use the six Intel SATA ports you will need to mount the M.2 "stick to a PCIe base adapter card and plug it into a PCIe slot. Doing so will leave your graphics card running at x8, not x16
Edited by wardog - 3 hours 32 minutes ago at 5:05am
Subject: Z270 Taichi
Posted: 19 Jan 2017 at 4:35am
In short, to have a RAID6 array span all the Intel SATA ports and use an M.2 "stick as your boot drive, the M.2 stick will HAVE to be mounted to an M.2 PCIe adapted card and used in an available x8(?4?) PCIE slot.
 accrox wrote:tnx for reply, the section M.2, SATA, U.2 & PCIe device combination table is not complete in the user manual explanation.. |
Again, see my post above this one. The SATA board mounted M.2 combinations/exceptions are laid out there.
These have no relation to PCIe M.2 adapter card. The PCIe slots and the motherboard mounted Ultra M.2 slots have no relation to each other as far as available lanes.
| accrox wrote: So even with Z270 Taichi I can use the 6xSATA ports with 2 ports M.2 PCIe NVMe? I wonder where I can find a table showing all the various possible solutions with SATA / pcie port for Taichi |
As parsec said in his post above this, if you are to use the six Intel SATA ports you will need to mount the M.2 "stick to a PCIe base adapter card and plug it into a PCIe slot. Doing so will leave your graphics card running at x8, not x16
Edited by wardog - 3 hours 32 minutes ago at 5:05am