What is SATA? In short, it’s how almost everything storage-related connects to your motherboard. If you build your own PCs or owned a desktop or laptop in the past decade and a half, you can be ...

M.2 SSDs for PCIe (x2 and x4) can be recognized by a cut-out — Key M. Variants with two cut-outs on the right and left (Keys B+M) usually only support PCIe x2 or SATA.