Author: parsec
Subject: Z270 Taichi
Posted: 19 Jan 2017 at 10:34am
As shown above, and in the specifications in the manual and on your board's information page at ASRock's website, you cannot use all six Intel SATA ports and the M.2 slots at the same time.
No such table exists showing all the possible connection combinations.
The Z270 chipset in the Taichi board works the same way as the Z170 chipset does with the M.2 slots and the Intel SATA ports. The M.2 slots and the SATA ports share resources. One M.2 slot shares resources with two SATA ports. You can use both SATA ports or the M.2 slot, of a shared set.
Use an M.2 slot, you lose two SATA ports. The SATA port numbers and M.2 slot number that are shared are in the specs wardog included above. All Z270 boards are like this, depending upon how many M.2 slots they have.
Subject: Z270 Taichi
Posted: 19 Jan 2017 at 10:34am
accrox wrote:As shown above, and in the specifications in the manual and on your board's information page at ASRock's website, you cannot use all six Intel SATA ports and the M.2 slots at the same time.
No such table exists showing all the possible connection combinations.
The Z270 chipset in the Taichi board works the same way as the Z170 chipset does with the M.2 slots and the Intel SATA ports. The M.2 slots and the SATA ports share resources. One M.2 slot shares resources with two SATA ports. You can use both SATA ports or the M.2 slot, of a shared set.
Use an M.2 slot, you lose two SATA ports. The SATA port numbers and M.2 slot number that are shared are in the specs wardog included above. All Z270 boards are like this, depending upon how many M.2 slots they have.