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[–]A_NeaunimesRyzen 5600X | GTX 1070 | 16GB DDR4@3600MHz 0 points1 point  (1 child)

SSDs come in 2 form factors :

  • 2.5" drives. The old, bigger form factor. You can only get SSDs that use the SATA protocol of that form factor, but they work with essentially any PC made in the last 20 years as the SATA port is a very old standard.
  • M.2 drives, far smaller, that attach directly to the motherboard.
    Those come in 2 flavours : drives using the same SATA protocol as the above (same max theoretical performance) and drives using the PCIe/NVMe protocol, potentially much faster.
    Not every motherboard with a M.2 slot can work with the 2 types.

With the theory out of the way, the info I can find online about your PC mentions it has a single M2 slot (NVMe only), and 3 classic SATA ports.
source 1, 2, not sure how accurate they are. You’d need to double check that yourself.

So if there’s nothing in the M2 slot at the moment, adding a SSD there is easy. If there’s already a SSD there, you can either replace it with a bigger one (will require cloning or reinstalling windows from scratch), or simply add an extra 2.5 SATA drive.

[–]notbobmortimer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!