The Gigabyte Z790 AORUS ELITE AX motherboard has more than one SSD connector. It offers a total of four M.2 connectors:

- One M.2 connector on the CPU (M2A_CPU).
- Three M.2 connectors on the chipset (M2P_SB, M2Q_SB, and M2M_SB).

All these connectors support PCIe 4.0 x4 or SATA SSDs, depending on the configuration.