Is the Sata port on this board usable?
This motherboard is very odd, I am trying to understand it. It has the outline for a secondary M.2 drive, but it doesn't have the header to insert one.
It has an existing sata port, but all the wires from the power supply are in use, but there's also an empty power port above the sata port labeled SATA-PWR. There's no way I plug a wire into this to power the sata, right? That wouldn't make sense to me, that port looks like it feeds the board, not used to power something else
I tried googling the proper way to use this sata port, the most I've found is that the motherboard is called a grady2, but doesn't help me. I don't know what terms to search to find this specific use case on this specific board.
Is it possible to power a drive with some adapter, but still have the sata cable directly connect to motherboard? I had the idea of using USB power somehow, but I'm super curious how that SATA-PWR is supposed to work
Such a strange configuration, would be nice if I could use that SSD2 port, it's even labeled, I wonder if it's normal that my board doesn't have that connector