Pedantic, but its an m.2 slot, not NVME slot. SATA m.2 drives existed before NVMEs, and there are m.2 slots that are only capable of SATA speeds.
I spent FAR too long figuring that out the hard way, and documentation on the internet was very much not helpful. I had a motherboard with one SATA only m.2 and one that could handle NVME.
Pedantic, but its an m.2 slot, not NVME slot. SATA m.2 drives existed before NVMEs, and there are m.2 slots that are only capable of SATA speeds.
I spent FAR too long figuring that out the hard way, and documentation on the internet was very much not helpful. I had a motherboard with one SATA only m.2 and one that could handle NVME.
ah fuck, I knew it was an m.2 slot and my brain just would not compute the correct word, so I just settled on the first word that came to mind.