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How many NVMe drives can run on a motherboard while having SATA drives
I want to upgrade my pc as it is from 2015.
I currently have a Intel Core i5 4690K @ 3.50GHz and a Samsung ssd as my 'C' drive with two internal sata 7,200rpm drives plus a 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 graphics card and 32.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz
Questions:
1) How many NVMe drives can run on a motherboard while having SATA drives plugged in? I see that 3 seems to be common.
I understand it has something to do with 'lanes' and if a SATA drive is plugged in then one of the NVMe ports will not work.
2) Is that still true for the latest motherboards?
3) Also should I be looking at boards with U.2 ports or just buy a card to plug in the future?
4) I would need a new ATX size case that will have these Thunderbolt & USB ports.
Any recommendations?
I am looking at this one. Any other recommendations would be welcome.
It has 3 x M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 mode and 4 x SATA 3.0 ports
Also Thunderbolt Header + USB 3.2 Gen 1 header
USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 Type-C Connector
Intel® W680 (LGA 1700) ATX motherboard, PCIe® 5.0, DDR5, dual Intel® 2.5 Gb Ethernet, three PCIe 4.0 M.2 slots, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 front panel connector, SlimSAS, SATA 6 Gbps, HDMI®, DisplayPort and VGA
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Can use up to a 13th Gen Intel i9 13900K cpu and max 128GB ram