As long as you have a PCIE 4.0 M2 spec slot, size 2280 then yes it will be fine.

Once installed you'll just need to partition and format it. Make sure it's set as GPT and not MBR. But Win11 I'm sure will suggest that since it's 4TB anyways.

Once done launch Steam and go to Settings and create a Library on the new drive. You can set that as default also if you wish

Which drive model did you have in mind?

Yep, they're all 4.0 slots i think.


Total supports 4 x M.2 slots and 4 x SATA 6Gb/s ports*

Intel® 13th & 12th Gen Processors
M.2_1 slot (Key M), type 2242/2260/2280/22110 (supports PCIe 4.0 x4 mode)

Intel® Z790 Chipset
M.2_2 slot (Key M), type 2242/2260/2280 (supports PCIe 4.0 x4 mode)
M.2_3 slot (Key M), type 2242/2260/2280/22110 (supports PCIe 4.0 x4 mode)
M.2_4 slot (Key M), type 2242/2260/2280 (supports PCIe 4.0 x4 & SATA modes)
4 x SATA 6Gb/s ports
* Intel® Rapid Storage Technology supports PCIe RAID 0/1/5/10, SATA RAID 0/1/5/10.


It will be easy so I wont have to keep removing my rtx 4080 that covers the middle M.2 slot.

Yes it will be fine.

Review further details in your Motherboard manual regarding which slots share resources with something else. As some or all M2 slots when used may disable certain SATA ports, if that matters to you

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Yes it will be fine.

Review further details in your Motherboard manual regarding which slots share resources with something else. As some or all M2 slots when used may disable certain SATA ports, if that matters to you

I only have one 4TB HD running in a sata port. Though months ago i did have a samsung ssd installed aswell and my pc was not reading one of my M.2 Nvme chips so had to disconnect the samsung ssd.

the m.2 slot nearest the cpu is off the cpus pci-e lanes

the bottom 3x m.2 slots are off the sb, sharing the sb pci-e lanes
all can have x4 lanes, while the bottom 3 are allocated as needed

games do not need all the speed that m.2 x4 offers
maybe only during the game install the way steam does it