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

im going to drop a bomb....windows is still extended 32bit....the OS its self will NEVER read or write faster then 1100mb a second.....it can execute 64 bit code and file transfers have been tweaked to run faster but real world your better off with your OS install in the slower, lower slots....put the big game drive in the top slot....


another major reason to do this is ....RESIZEABLE BAR...... as more games use it, it will show up more having the game drive on the slower slots.....another thing that will slow it down is single drives as the I/O requests of the OS will kill over all speeds of the drive


legacy support is a B!*ch

what does 32bit have to do with read/write speeds?

you may be limited to 1gb/s file transfers by something else
drive speed, or network or usb

the point is simple....your OS should not be on your fastest drive do to the limitations.....its that simple.....and i did a typo....its 1100 MEGABYTES not bits....that is my bad.....

LOL no, Win10 and 11 are 64bit; with the ability to execute 32bit code and such. While Win10 still offered a 32bit version, Win11 does not.

Just like how there is 64bit Linux distros and you have option for 32bit Libraries in those OS'