Surface 8 Pro - new SSD - compatibility with PCIe 4

I have bought a SN740 1TB SSD (2230) which is a PCIe 4.0 drive recently to upgrade the SSD drive on my Surface Pro 8. However the device keep rebooting everytime when I tried to install the window from image on a USB drive to the new SSD. It come up with error such as "clock watchdog timeout" etc and cannot finish the windows installation process. When I swap back the original SSD (Koxia BG4 256GB, PCIe 4.0) then everything back to normal.

I have seen people having similar problem with Koxia BG5 which is also PCIe 4.0.

Not sure if there will be a fix on that.....

Ok, sorry Barb! You seem so professional!

So I hope, that an official Microsoft Moderator will check and answer the topic.

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Hi,

thank you, but this information won't help fully.

But I assume, that not all drives are compatible with the surfaces - it would be really helpful, if Microsoft provides some informations about the compatibility.

I have read, that PCIe 4 ssd won't work at all?

Why would that be, since the drives themselfes should be compatible to PCIe 3.

Take a look at this thread Surface Pro 8 BSOD After upgrading SSD - Microsoft Community - also see SSD removal in compatible Surface devices - Surface | Microsoft Docs