How many sata ports are disabled with 1 NVMe or

Legacy SATA: Used for SATA SSDs, and interfaced through the AHCI driver and legacy SATA port exposed through the connector PCI Express

Legacy SATA: Used for SATA SSDs, and interfaced through the AHCI driver and legacy SATA port exposed through the connector PCI Express

m2 expansion slot SATA does not have a direct link to the computer's processor Many NVMe SSD drives use the form factor, like the drive pictured below

m2_1 slot 2 slot The figure below compares the two most common slots: Socket 2 and Socket 3 Socket 2 supports PCIE x2 or SATA, while Socket 3