What does the X4 mean in an PCIe Gen X4 NVME drive?

Enjoy extremely fast transfer speeds via PCIe lanes Includes a heatsink and thermal padding SSD bus interface: NVMe

A PCIe x8 to dual NVMe card typically requires the ability to access two separate PCIe x4 lanes, one for each drive Normally this can

m2 sata slot The CPU does indeed have 16 lanes However the Chipset has additional PCIe lanes to manage devices aside from the GPU such as the SSD Z270 has 24

m2 sata vs nvme slot 2 connector is a miniaturised x4 PCIe slot All devices are x4 or less lanes PCIe devices Don't matter if the adapter PCB physically fits a