Hi Folks,
I must confess that I've NEVER even paid any real attention to the M.2 drives for any motherboards I've installed because they all seem to require that at least one SATA port be disabled.

However, I have to admit that the speed of the Seagate M.2 NVMe drive is too fast to ignore (https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B08Q4X1HRJ/ref=sspa_dk_detail_1?pd_rd_i=B08Q54CHS6&pd_rd_w=g0AJD&pf_rd_p...).

Still, there's a lot of technical requirements that get me confused about these slots in general.

Does anyone out there have one of these Seagate drives installed in their ROG Z490 Maximus XII Formula mobo? If so, how many SATA ports did you have to give up to run a single M.2 card?
Thanks,
Rich
My Basic system specs:
Win 10 Pro O/S
RAM: T-Force XTreem 3600MHz, 32GB (2 x 16 gb)
PSU: EVGA Supernova 1300G2 1300W PSU
CPU: Intel i7–10700K (OC’d 5.2 GHz)
GPU: EVGA RTX-2070 Super
Waterblock: EKWB EK-Quantum CPU block