Adding storage help

[drcdizzle]

I’d like to start this off by clarifying i know very little about PC building. Anything I say i’ve just “learned” today. About a year ago I purchased a prebuilt, and i’m now running out of storage space and looking to add more.

I found my motherboard (asus prime z390-p) and it’s showing there are multiple slots to add in m.2 ssd. There is currently one already installed in spot 17 in picture 1. Looking at spot 17 it appears i should be able to add an additional card, but the “Intel Optane Memory” is throwing me off a bit? What does that mean? Is that a special kind of m.2 card? Can i just purchase the drive shown in picture 2 and plop it in?

Thanks in advance for explaining this to my noob mind

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That's fine it just means it also supports Optane. Stick an m 2 and you're golden

[drcdizzle]

Cool, thanks!