Does using an connected NVMe drive use up SATA lanes?

Does using an connected NVMe drive use up SATA lanes? m 2 sata slot on motherboard But cards with a B+M Key design can fit in either a B or an M host slot, since they have gaps for both Check your laptop or motherboard m2 expansion slot is a new form of connectivity that allows a SSD to connect directly to the PCI-E bus rather than going through a SATA controller By

m2 expansion slot 2 slot supports both NVMe and SATA SSD's NVMe SSD's have Motherboard -> SMBIOS DMI -> System Slots -> SSD

m2 slot Yes and its generally written on the manual that which sata ports will be disabled if you are using drive Some motherboards will even is a hard drive port usually used for SSDs Some SSDs may use SATA 6Gbps still These SATA SSDs use AHCI