MSI MEG Z590 UNIFY Manual page 16

Storage
RAID
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Specifications
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∙ 6x SATA 6Gb/s ports (from Z590 chipset)
∙ 4x M.2 slots (Key M)
▪ M2_1 (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** slots
▫ Support up to PCIe 3.0 x4 and SATA 6Gb/s (from
Z590 chipset, default)***
▫ Support up to PCIe 4.0 x4 (from CPU, by BIOS
selection), it is available only on 11th Gen Intel® CPU
▫ M2_2 supports 2242/ 2260/ 2280 storage devices
▫ M2_3 supports 2242/ 2260/ 2280/ 22110 storage
devices
▪ M2_4 slot (from Z590 chipset)***
▫ Supports up to PCIe 3.0 x4, 2242/ 2260/ 2280 storage
devices
∙ 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.
*** Intel® Optane™ Memory Ready. Before using Intel® Optane™ memory
modules, please ensure that you have updated the drivers and BIOS to the latest
version from MSI website.
**** PCI_E4 and M2_4 share the same bandwidth, if you want to use both of
them simultaneously, the PCI_E4 will only support x1 speed and the M2_4 will
only support x2 speed. But if you want to install and enable the graphics card in
PCI_E4 slot, the M2_4 slot should be empty.
∙ 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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