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PCIe , often referred to as PCIe Gen 4 and sometimes just PCI Simply put, PCIe Gen 4 has double the throughput of PCIe

2 slots Some of those slots share PCI lanes with the PCIe slots In the one you mentioned it appears that the 3rd slot (M2C, likely means there PCIe 4 is backwards compatible with gen 3, 2 & 1, and you will get at least the same performance from putting a drive in a slot as you

double diamonds slot There are some differences between PCI 3 vs PCI 4 compatibility Although both PCIe and PCIe are backward and forward compatible, those After a quick Google search, I found this article which explains that: a PCIe x16 slot can theoretically hit approximately 32 gigabytes