MSI MEG Z590 ACE Quick Start Manual page 17

Thunderbolt 4
Storage
RAID
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Intel® JHL8540 Thunderbolt™ 4 Controller
∙ 2x Thunderbolt™ 4 (USB-C) ports on the back panel
▪ Support up to 40Gbps transfer rate with Thunderbolt
devices
▪ Support up to 20Gbps transfer rate with USB4 devices
▪ Support up to 10Gbps transfer rate with USB 3.2
devices
▪ Support up to 5V/3A ,15W power charging
▪ Each port can daisy-chain up to three Thunderbolt 4
devices or five Thunderbolt 3 devices
▪ Supports up to 8K display (need to connect the
DisplayPort of the motherboard or discrete graphics card
to the Mini DisplayPort Input port on the back panel)
∙ 6x SATA 6Gb/s ports (from Z590 chipset)
∙ 4x M.2 slots (Key M)
▪ M2_1 slot (from CPU)
▫ Available only on 11th Gen Intel® CPU
▫ Supports up to PCIe 4.0 x4
▫ Supports 2242/ 2260/ 2280/ 22110 storage devices
▪ M2_2*, M2_3**, M2_4 slots (from Z590 chipset)
▫ M2_2 , M2_3 & M2_4 support up to PCIe 3.0 x4***
▫ M2_2 & M2_3 support up to SATA 6Gb/s
▫ M2_4 slot supports PCIe only.
▫ Supports 2242/ 2260/ 2280 storage devices
▫ Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready****
∙ Supports Intel® Smart Response Technology for Intel
Core™ processors
* SATA2 will be unavailable when installing M.2 SATA SSD in the M2_2 slot.
** SATA5 & SATA6 will be unavailable when installing M.2 SATA/PCIe SSD in the
M2_3 slot.
*** M2_4 bandwidth will switch from x4 to x2 when PCI_E5 slot is inserted.
**** Before using Intel® Optane™ memory modules, please ensure that you have
updated the drivers and BIOS to the latest version from MSI website.
∙ Supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10 for SATA
storage devices
∙ Supports RAID 0 and RAID 1 for M.2 NVMe storage devices
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Specifications