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Can I use a Gen 4 NVMe SSd in a Gen 2 slot? m 2 ssd slot nvme pcie gen3 ONLY work with NVME or PCIe based drives and not the older SATA based SSD m2_1 slot An NVMe drive is also an SSD Instead of connecting it via a SATA III cable, it plugs directly into the motherboard via the PCIe slot or into a traditional

m2 slot pc 2 Get the generation of the PCIe itself $ sudo lspci -vv -s 08 grep -w LnkCap LnkCap: Port