I have a Acer predator laptop and I need to know what generation of ssd is compatible for my laptop.

The details of my laptop are as follows:

i7 10th Gen - i7-10870H CPU @ 2.20GHz

Pre-installed ram- 16 GB Ram

Pre-installed storage- 1 TB HDD and 256 GB SSD

Given Graphics card- 6 GB Graphics NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

https://www.flipkart.com/acer-predator-helios-300-core-i7-10th-gen-16-gb-1-tb-hdd-256-gb-ssd-windows-10-home-6-graphics-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-144-hz-ph315-53-gaming-laptop/p/itmb2022d3889ada?pid=COMGFH8KHCHZBHDQ&lid=LSTCOMGFH8KHCHZBHDQUCRINS

Now, I need to know if my laptop is compatible with PCIe Gen 4 SSD or only supports PCIe 3.0.

Or is it just that it would process PCIe Gen 4 SSD and then run it in a downgraded state?

And the maximum speed I can obtain via the SSDs in my laptop.

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StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/679068/i-have-a-acer-predator-laptop-and-i-need-to-know-what-generation-of-ssd-is-compatible-for-my-laptop

Your Predator PH315-53 has 2x PCIe Gen.3x4 M.2 slots and its compatible and will work with a PCIe 4 x4 M.2 drives but, your laptop will never ever utilized the PCIe 4 x4 speeds to the CDM benchmark below, so you would be wasting your money imo.

There is not a tremendous difference between the tested top 3 PCIe 3 x4 M.2 drives as they all have different strengths in different areas and its really academic which one you want to use or brag about😁. In your laptop with the Samsung 970 Pro you would get speeds of read at 3600MB/s and Write at 3300 MB/s which is the high end speeds of these drives.

Note: you will never ever get the Samsung 980 Pro PCIe 4 x4 speeds like below with your PH31553.

Just as an example for the WD 1TB SN750 Black M.2 NVMe drive on my Nitro AN515-56 i7-11370H - RTX-3050 4GB - 16GB (2x SK Hynix 8GB DD$-3200MHz CL22) ram which is speedy enough for what I use this laptop for, as I've chosen this drive as Acer fitted oem a lower PCIe 3 x4 SN530 NVMe M.2 speed drive on this laptop, so that is why I've chosen the SM750 Black instead of the Samsun EVO range and also it was allot cheaper and I've found no problems with it and it works very speedily and perfectly, this is its CDM benchmark speeds for that drive.