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2 standard contains variants with up to four PCIe lanes, one SATA 6 Gbs and or one USB port So it is possible to connect PCIe as well as SATA SSDs  2 slots are each tied to a single CM4 slot If the drive is in the first slot, only the CM4 in the first CM4 slot will have direct access to

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