What are the Differences between Gen4 and Gen3 PCIe SSDs?

will a gen 4 ssd work in a gen 3 slot   Dan willis creek slot canyon trailhead

As far as I know both PCI-e slots and devices are backwards compatible A PCI-e nvme will work on a pci-e slot as far as I know

SSD (installed on _1 slot, supports I tried to locate the driver by downloading them from ASUS's site but none will work  PCIe Gen4 is the fourth generation of the PCI Express specification As the subsequent iteration of Gen3, Gen4's data transfer rate is twice that of PCIe Gen 3,

situs slot nexusengine They are all compatible Even a PCIe SSD will work just fine, but the speed will be limited to PCIe x4  Gen4 drives often have betternewer hardware so will run better in a Gen3 slot than a native Gen3 drive in many if not most cases, but you