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Hello, I have buy an WD Black SN850 and the speed of this ssd is very slow comparaired to the decription, the description said that this ssd have 7000 Mo/s read, but the speed in windows is: 3000 Mo/s.

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I believe your system has generation 3 pcie express, not generation 4

gen3 has speed up to 3000

 

Your system has Intel chipset HM470 which is the "400 series" 

https://www.techpowerup.com/263318/intel-400-series-chipset-motherboards-to-lack-pcie-gen-4-0-launch...

 

However the best check is to run hwinfo64 and look at the pcie express version. My area51 r4 is gen3 as show below

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