A Neverending Story: PCIe 3.0/4.0/5.0 Bifurcation, Adapters, Switches, HBAs, Cables, NVMe Backplanes, Risers & Extensions - The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

Hah, your right! For both drives, I get: LnkSta: Speed 16GT/s, Width x4

But why could the read speeds be so low then? I’m running the Gnome Disks Benchmark w/ 1GB sample size. It always jumps to 3.8GB/s and then quickly drops to 2.9GB/s…

The drives are rated for 6,900 MB/s