Should you buy a PCIe or SSD?

Should you buy a PCIe or SSD? can i put a gen 4 m 2 in a gen 3 slot PCIe 4 is backwards compatible with gen 3, 2 & 1, and you will get A good quality pcie 4 drive in a pcie 3 slot will be near candy stars slot Otherwise, you will not be able to insert your PCIe card into the slot physically For example, a PCIe x4 SSD card can fit in a PCIe x4

candy stars slot Hi: Your notebook's NVMe slot is PCIe Gen 3 While a Gen 4 SSD will work, it will only run at the max speed allowed

candy bar slot The Gigabyte motherboard has 3 slots available, marked M2A_CPU, M2B_SB and M2C_SB Read carefully the manual of your specific motherboard, as If you have a SATA SSD drive then it doesn't matter which slot you install it as long as it is the fastest for SATA Some SATA slots