NVMe PCIE or SATA : which does the m.2 2280 socket on my MB support

[ngc2359]

New computer. It has an internal m.2 type 3 socket 2280 for an SSD ... I've looked at it and it has M-key but not B-key so I know it COULD support an NVMe SSD drive being plugged in ... but what I don't know and what a chat session and phone call to HP Support has not resolved (NO CLUE) is will it support an NVMe 4-ch PCIE data rates? If not then I'll end up paying 50% more for the same performance as a standard SATA SSD drive using the m.2 socket. PLEASE  - SOMEONE must know? The one BIG downside of using proprietary MB hardware - and HP has no clue what it does nor were interested in helping me find out... 

[Cheron-Z]

@ngc2359

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[ngc2359]

Thanks for that - HOPEFULLY someone will reply. This is still new - just days old... so far I've run LatencyMon and found its latency is no better than my 3 year old Dell i5-4460 (this is a i7-8700) ... which is quite disappointing... and that the BIOSi is VERY anemic with almost no controls/settings ... seems making it as cheap as possible results in very little user flexibility. The SSD issue is the last one I'm trying to get resolved - I might end up having to return this and go back to a Dell if I can't get an answer.

regards

[ngc2359]

NOTE: the response I got from HP Support on whether or not the Motherboard m.2 connector will do NVMe PCIe 4-ch was that it would NOT. If you plug an SSD in to this socket it will only perform at SATA speeds - ie. roughly 500Mb/sec.

The actuality is this is wrong! I and at least one other (here on this forum, him first) have installed Samsung 970 EVO NVMe SSD's and they work wonderfully fast. When I use PassMarks Performance Test software it gives the default shipped HDD a rating of something like 250 ... the NVMe is rated at 15,000!

so first a note to others that might be asking this same question (HP wasn't very helpful in getting there - it took pushing to get an answer) and second a note to HP that your "experts" aren't! They are UNDERselling your product.

[brettmc1]

I've a WD Black NVMe waiting to be installed tonight on my 270 P014.  My Lubin mobo has the H270 chipset.  What does yours have?  Did you have to jump through any hoops on the install?