Question Will my X470 motherboard support a WD Black in the second M.2 Socket?

[PB97]

I have an Aorus X470 Ultra gaming, rev 01 on firmware version F6A, with a Ryzen 7 chip.

I'm looking at buying this M/2 drive:

WD BLACK SN770 2TB SSD M.2 2280 NVME PCI-E GEN4 SOLID STATE DRIVE​

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Socket Socket A (The one nearest the CPU) is already occupied with my boot drive, and I want to put this into socket B (The one furthest from the CPU) as a data drive.

I've heard that some people have been having compatibility problems when putting M.2 into that slot on this board, but there have been varied answers that contradict each other about how they fixed it.

IS there likely to be a problem if I go ahead?

 

[kerberos_20]

yes, you can use it, but it will run in gen 2 mode only, which is still faster than sata

 

[USAFRet]

X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING (rev. 1.0) Specification | Motherboard - GIGABYTE Global

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(the second slot)
"1 x M.2 connector (Socket 3, M key, type 2242/2260/2280 PCIe 2.0 x4/x2 SSD support) (M2B_SOCKET)"

It will probably work.
However, it is only a PCIe 2.0 port.
Putting a PCIe 4.0 is a waste of money.

 

[PB97]

I've still got the option of putting it in as a primary on another board later on.