What Are PCIe SSDs and How to Use Them As a Boot Drive

Hello, I'm about to upgrate to 12th gen intel, and I unsure about a spec on the motherboards I'm considering The CPU will be a i5-12400,

If you have an NVMe PCIe based SSD in the slot, SATA port 1 will be available You're good to go with the current storage setup though I'd

m2_1 slot Not all motherboards support both types, it depends on the age of the motherboard in most cases ON your board, the slots support both SATA

m2 pcie slot SATA Disk Drives off of one Motherboard SATA Connector This I'm using a 120GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD as my main OS drive Win7 64-bit