Just installed a Samsung 970 Evo Plus into my late 2013 27" and its showing a PCIe link width of only 2x and speeds are kinda of meh. Is this normal for this model?
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Late 2013 27" iMac 3rd party NVME SSD link only 2x is that normal?
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Yes.
Maybe a little slow, but the Late 2013 iMac only has two lanes of PCIe 2.0, which is about a max of 1GBps.
Is there something going on with the drive that is making it a little slower? Did you just install an OS on it, if so, then maybe there is some indexing going on with the drive. Test it again in a day or two.
Just for reference, I have posted the speeds of a Samsung X5 NVMe Thunderbolt 3 external drive as a boot drive on a Late 2012 iMac, and the speeds were slightly higher than what you posted for your Late 2013 iMac.
