I'm thinking of buying the Maximus VII Impact and wanted to get some clarification on the use of the M.2 slot. I currently have a boot drive, a games drive, a data drive, a backup drive, and a DVD drive in my PC. At total of five drives that require a SATA port. I would like to have the same setup in an Impact build. On bigger boards I understand that sometimes the use of an M.2 drive will either turn off a PCIe slot or one of the SATA ports. I was wondering if this is the case with the Impact. Can I run an M.2 SSD plus have all four SATA ports still function?
Sorry if this has been answered but I couldn't find anything through a Google search or a search of the forums.
Thanks! 🙂