What is PCIe® Gen 4 for SSDs, and how does it compare to Gen 3

Your notebook's NVMe slot is only PCIe Gen 3, so a PCIe Gen 4 SSD is only going to run at the Gen 3 speed, and not reach its advertised

NVME slot, but c'mon really? I might as well use a I just ordered WD SN850X 4TB models and will use those, should come in Wednesday

can you cheat a slot machine My laptop has a gen 3 slot 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

candy burst slot png Even though the PCIe 4 slot is backward compatible with the Gen 3 SSD, the fact that you're connecting it to a Gen 4 slot will not increase data