Occupying M2 slot on the motherboard with SATA SSD

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On your board, only one slot is connected to the chipset, M2_1, so it should be easy to find out which drive is in that bus with HWiNFO64

I was looking on amazon at the MSI Z490-A PRO, and saw in the questionanswer section: Question:The m2_1 slot is only available on 11th gen intel cpus  2 slot that can run at NVMe PCIe bandwidth, whereas others may be restricted to using SATA bandwidth Some motherboards' slots may even

safari gold megaways slot M2_1 and M2_2 are likely just the labelling for which slot on the motherboard is which Drives are not distinguished between with that kind slot , the gate