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This X470 motherboard will get you six SATA 6 Gb/s storage ports. Sitting left of the PCIe x16 slot are two M.2 slots as well, using x4 PCIe lanes directly from the CPU thus 32 GB/sec of performance.

MSI is equipping the board with six SATA3 ports. I would have preferred eight for a board of this class, then again, I think MSI might be using the PCIe lanes of them for the second M2 slot. BTW to the left a POST diagnostic LED, which will display any error or POST status codes during bootup. 

 
Here you can see that 8cm type 2242/2260/2280 slot. Delivering up to 32 Gb/s data transfer speed per connector. So it supports PCIe 3.0 x4 (Ryzen series processors). Let's take a quick peek under the hood:

As you can see, a huge heatsink with proper thermal padding. If that doesn't cool down a hot M2 SSD, I don't know what will. Very nice.
  

The four memory DIMM slots have been reinforced with metal shielding as well. The board supports single and dual channel with support up-to DDR4 2933 MHz and starts at 2133 MHz memory modules (JEDEC). 4 x DDR4 DIMM sockets can support up to 64 GB of system memory. BTW MSI supports OC memory up-to 3600 MHz with XMP ;)