hdd slot in motherboard

Your board has two m. ppplay slot 2 slots which can accept m 2 form factor SSDs It also has 4 SATA ports which can generally be used with any combination of up to 4 HDD, SSD or media readers (SD card, optical, etc) You'll have a SATA cable going from the port on the motherboard to the component and a power cable going from the PSU to the component