What is PCIe Bifurcation? -

PCIe SSD 220S PCIe SSDs m 2 slot with pcie x4 lanes Consider a PCIe NVMe SSD as an illustration Most NVMe SSDs utilize the x4 connection, which has a bandwidth of 4GBs, which bottlenecks m2 slot SATA VS PCIE ; Interface, x1 Lane, x2 Lanes, x4 Lanes ; PCIe , 4,000 MBsec, 8,000 MBsec, 16,000 MBsec ; PCIe , 2,000 MBsec, 4,000 MBsec, 8,000 MBsec

m2 nvme slot Older standards, or systems where PCIe interfaces are using fewer data lanes as discussed in BIOSUEFI Configuration for Optimizing PCIe®NVMe®SSDs, will