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10. Intel
®
SATA 6Gb/s Ports
The Intel
®
Z590 PCH has a 6-port SATA 6Gb/s controller (See Page 50 for
specifics on the connectors). This controller is backwards compatible with
SATA and SATA II devices, and supports SSDs, HDDs and various types of
optical devices (CDROM, DVDROM, BD-ROM, etc.). The controller also
supports NCQ, TRIM, hot swap capability (provided the proper HDD/SSD
bays/racks are installed), and RAID levels 0/1/5/10.
11. M.2 Socket 3 Key-M 110mm
M.2 is an SSD standard, which uses up to four PCIe lanes and utilizes either up
to Gen4 (PM1) or Gen3 (PM3) speeds. Most popularly paired with NVMe
SSDs, this standard offers substantially faster transfer speeds and seek time than
SATA interface standards. All M.2 devices are designed to connect via a card-
bus style connector, secured by bolting into place, and powered by the
connector – rather than a dedicated data cable and power cable.
The M.2 Key-M 110mm connectors (PM1 and PM3) support PCIe M.2 devices.
This socket will support Key-M devices of 110mm, 80mm, 60mm, and 42mm
length.
12. M.2 Socket 3 Key-M 80mm
M.2 is an SSD standard, which uses up to four PCIe lanes and utilizes up to
Gen3 (PM2) speeds. Most popularly paired with NVMe SSDs, this standard
offers substantially faster transfer speeds and seek time than SATA interface
standards. All M.2 devices are designed to connect via a card-bus style
connector, secured by bolting into place, and powered by the connector – rather
than a dedicated data cable and power cable.
The M.2 Key-M 80mm connector (PM2) supports PCIe and SATA devices.
This socket will support Key-M devices of 80mm, 60mm, and 42mm length.
13. PCIe Slot x16/x8
PCIe x16/x8 slots are primarily for video cards. These full-length slots will
provide 8 or 16 lanes of bandwidth to a full-size card, and are backwards-
compatible with x8, x4, and x1-length cards.
Rocket Lake-S processors have 20 PCIe lanes available for routing, and Comet
Lake-S Socket 1200 processors have 16 PCIe lanes available for routing.
The 20 RKL Gen4 PCIe lanes are pulled from the CPU and shared with the x16
PCIe slot 2 (PE2) and M.2 Key-M 110mm (PM1). Lanes automatically switch
from x16/x0 to x8/x8 when the motherboard detects a card in slot PE2.
