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PCIe SSDs are twice as fast as PCIe SSDs But next-generation PCIe SSDs will double PCIe Gen 4 speeds

I believe both slots are generation 3 because chapter 1 of the manual indicates that HP only offered Gen 3 NVMe SSD's in the model series and The Gigabyte motherboard has 3 slots available, marked M2A_CPU, M2B_SB and M2C_SB Read carefully the manual of your specific motherboard, as

pinata fiesta slot machine First of all, I know that a PCIe 4 SSD NVMe will be running at gen 3 speeds and bottlenecked by the PCIe 3 slot i have both gen 3 and gen 4 m Buying a gen 4 since it is backwards compatible and I can use it in future in case mobo upgrades to gen 4 2TB or 4TB storage? 98 upvotes