3 Things to Know About Intel NUC 11 Beast Canyon Storage

No 2.5-inch drive bays The Beast Canyon eliminates all 2.5-inch bays. You only get two M.2 2280 slots.

One Gen 4, one Gen 3 slot The primary slot runs at PCIe Gen 4 x4. The secondary slot runs at Gen 3 x4, or you can use a SATA M.2 drive instead.

It is a pure NVMe machine Plan your storage accordingly. There is no room for traditional hard drives or SSDs.