Lightning Gen M.2

[Mr Dan Dan]

I bought a M.2 when I purchased my MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WI-FI motherboard but put it in the Lightning Gen M.2 slot instead of the normal one and it didn't work. I swapped it to the other slot and it works fine but my question is, where do I find a specific M.2 Lightning Gen drive as I'm ready to buy one for this slot as well.

 

[Mr Dan Dan]

I have the same board, I'm fairly certain the only differences between the slots is that the "lightning" one under the heatsink supports pcie 4.0, if you have a 3rd gen ryzen cpu installed, and I think it also supports 22110 form factor drives, which are a bit longer, and won't fit in the other slot. Not that relevant really, as 22110 are relatively rare, I think pretty much all the ones OCUK sell are 2280 and will fit in either slot.

What drive did you buy that doesn't work in the lightning slot?

WD Blue 3D NAND 1TB M.2 SATA 2280 SSD is the one I bought which is working fine