NVMe vs vs SATA vs PCIe: What are these SSDs?

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NVMe drives won't work with hosts drives are backwards compatible with , but the other way around

And I don't have a spare M2 slot to check it in Since the Optiplex 7040 is PCIe NVMe compliant, that's probably what I will end up using, if I 3 NVMe SSD for input to the VIAVI PCIe Analyzer In the table below, you can see the aggregate bandwidth options offered by PCIe vs PCIe

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