I have been running the 970 Evo for about a month now at the time ... SATA cables just attach it straight to the motherboard! 500GB isn't huge but if your storage requirements are light or you ...

which was a Samsung 960 EVO 500GB SATA SSD. It was very fast then but now it is twice as fast (or more) using this 970 EVO Plus M.2 SSD. Windows 10 boots to the desktop from a cold start in approx.