Sabrent NVMe SSD to PCIe X16X8X4 Card with Aluminum

You need to configure the slot that the xpander card is installed in to “x4+x4+x4+x4” as opposed to x8 or x16 The motherboard BIOS mayalso

2 ports rather than ports As compared to M2, , by utilizing four PCI Express lanes and two SATA lanes, delivers a staggering

m2 slot types Curious why my Intel 660p SSD only gets one lane when is supposed to be provisioned with 4 lanes socket checked and fine,

m2 slot mainboard So basically, I keep hearing that NVMe cards need 4x PCIe lanes But then I keep seeing posts saying that they can run at 2x lanes