PCIe Lanes

They depend on a SATAAHCI controller on the motherboard Here is a PCIe card that can connect one PCIe NVMeAHCI drive

So using the cards on PCI should be perfectly fine, I plan on using it as well Additionally, I also found benchmarks comparing RTX 3080

candy slot game Although the PCIe GEN 3 slot should detect a GEN 2 controller and run as designed, this is not always the case Drives Dropping from the array- Known good

candy palace slot However, the connection will run at the speed of the slowest device, so a PCIe SSD can only run at PCIe even in a slot that supports PCIe Q