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NVMe Gen4 im Gen3 slot (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If I put a Gen4 with 6000MB/s max speed into a Gen3 slot it means the max speed will be ~3000MB/s?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's a data transfer bottleneck not a limitation directly on the drive itself. Additional speed capability of the drive will be wasted in a 3.0 slot. Don't think of it as the drive's data speed, it's your cpu/mobo speed.

IMO, look at both 3.0 and 4.0 drives and pick one with the capabilities you are looking for, there is a good deal of overlap between the high end 3.0 and low end 4.0.

It's not a good leapfrog piece of hardware, 5.0 is out now and 4.0s has/will shortly finish maturing and further drop in price- if you actually need more speed at some point, buy then, imo, assuming this new pc is not happening within the next 6 months or so. If it is farther out you don't know if 5.0 will be a consideration or not.