PCIEx16 drops to x 8 when M2 SSD is installed???

I don't think this system is SSD

2, also known as NGFF is the successor of the mSATA standard for expansion cards 1x 2280 NVMe slot and 1x 2230 NVMe

m2 slot pc I'm upgrading one of the 1TB drives to a 2TB I will use the MSI Expander on my Creator X299 motherboard to install the new drive so I can

m2 nvme slot expansion slot is the specification for internal expansion cards on computers' motherboards Intel first introduced slot in 2012 as