Just this moment dawning on me that to make my boot drive a SATA SSD (Samsung 860 Pro) - that leaves me 5x SATA ports for my 6 SATA farming storage drives…
I didn’t realize this board has 3x M.2 connectors on it - the long plate along the bottom I have 2x Samsung 980 Pros in (1TB) - they do some bandwidth sharing with two of the SATA ports which I don’t think will be much of a problem or at least I’m not concerning myself with it right now.
That leaves the pcie 4.0 m.2 slot up by the CPU completely unoccupied. It probably would have been smarter of me to do another smaller m.2 drive there as the boot drive.
I may still do that because this will bug the hell out of me having the build unbalanced… Hmmmm
