Question What's is mean if Laptop Specification Show : NVME Gen 3x4

[danygood]

Hello
please tell me what is mean if the laptop specification show its support : NVME Gen 3x4
so its mean only support NVME Gen 3 speed ? and cant use maximum speed of NVME Gen 4 ? right ?
Thank you

 

[rgd1101]

correct. max out at gen 3

 

[danygood]

correct. max out at gen 3

thank you , so i must to buy only NVME gen 3 and not worth to buy NVME gen 4 ?

 

[USAFRet]

thank you , so i must to buy only NVME gen 3 and not worth to buy NVME gen 4 ?

In that laptop, a Gen 4 drive will only operate at Gen 3 speed.

Performance always depends on the slowest device in the chain.