Does the Dell Inspiron 15 3520 Take an NVMe SSD?
Dell Inspiron 15 3520
NVMe storage was observed in reports for this laptop.
- Reports
- 41
- Saw NVMe
- 93%
- Fastest link observed
- PCIe Gen4 ×4
The fastest link we saw in real machines was PCIe Gen4 ×4. That is a floorobserved in field reports, not the slot’s ceiling — a faster drive still works because PCIe is backward compatible; it simply runs at the slot’s speed.
Field reports can’t tell us the physical connector, how many slots are empty, or which M.2 length fits. Check the service manual and the installed drive before you buy.
Reported by field data
- Storage controller:
- Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P SATA AHCI Controller
- Platform:
- Intel Corporation Device
- Drives seen:
- Micron 2400 NVMe SSD (DRAM-less), KIOXIA BG5 (DRAM-less), Samsung PM9B1 (DRAM-less)
Drives people actually had installed when they ran the report — not a compatibility list, and not the only drives that fit.
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How we know
This answer is derived from 41 independent hardware reports for the Dell Inspiron 15 3520, of which 93% observed an NVMe drive. We read the PCI device list in each report to tell NVMe apart from SATA.
Check it yourself
On Windows, open Task Manager → Performance and click your disk to see its model and type. On Linux, run lsblk -d -o NAME,TRAN,MODEL and read the TRAN column.
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Storage interfaces derived from linuxhw/LsPCI, licensed CC-BY-4.0.