Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Check actual SSD part number with ASRock. M.2 2280 is not enough. Better yet, put the $30 you will need for a 4-6 port pcie SATA card towards a better board. This board only boots from one SATA channel that you can't use if you put in a SSD on M.2-2. So you lose boot capabilies from an HD or a DVD if you use M.2-2 as well as you lose two of four SATA ports. This little detail is what pushes this board into POS land. You can boot from a USB and that works real well because W10 loves being installed from USB or after Ubuntu, since it plays so well with others. If you want a lower cost SSD like a 500GB WD Blue, a DVD burner, and more than one SATA, you would be out of luck. I was aware of the SATA-SSD restriction and thought I'd confirmed the WDBlue would work in M.2-1, I did not check down to the SSD model number because it was hard to find initially. My Bad, don't make the same mistake. Since I already installed, I'm stuck with this POS. I wish I had bought the MSI board for $125. You will be close to this number by the time you fix the M.2 issue. Of course, all of these little caveates are separately listed in various locations, except for the SATA boot limitation. That is left for self discovery. It is only after you get into it that it comes together and one realizes that one is screwed and should have just bought a higher priced board.