Identify PCIe slots on the motherboard

[RamDealer]

Hi,

can someone help me identify these slots, I know they are PCIe, but they are different from the black slot. Also can they be used for an SSD?

 

[beers]

The other slots are traditional PCI, although I'm not sure specifically the difference for that small notch on the middle slot. Despite sharing the PCI part of the name it's a completely different standard and significantly slower, you wouldn't want to put a SSD on them. Normal PCI had something like 133 MB/sec shared bandwidth for the entire bus (more cards = slower bus) and was half duplex.

 

[RamDealer]

Thanks.

 

[Intel_man]

If your mobo still has PCI slots, it's probably not going to support SSD storage through nvme via PCI-E slot.

NVME support is "relatively" new... around the time of the Z97 chipset era for Intel boards. Which is way past the PCI days.