3 Things to Know About the B450-Plus M.2 Slot

The single M.2 slot supports both NVMe and SATA drives You can install either a PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe or a SATA M.2 drive in the ASUS TUF Gaming B450-Plus.

It runs at PCIe 3.0 x4 speeds for NVMe drives NVMe drives will operate at their full PCIe 3.0 x4 bandwidth, delivering fast read and write performance.

SATA M.2 drives work but are slower If you use a SATA M.2 drive, it will function normally but won’t benefit from the faster NVMe interface.