The 1TB Z Turbo Drive G2 PCIe SSD from HP is an M.2 form factor device that uses PCIe Gen3 x4 interface. This interface enables performance levels higher than 2 GB/s. The NVMe controller technology further improves its random read performance. The drive supports storage configuration as a boot device and as a data device. It also can be configured with other storage components including SATA and SAS drives and controllers. The Z Turbo Drive G2 requires BIOS version 1.5 or later and can be used with Linux operating systems.