Can you connect an SATA to an NVMe port?

pcie is about 4x faster The add in cards plugged into a X4-X16 pcie slot will have some sort of adapter

SATA is just a complete wasted slot ; all slots should be dual NVMESATA capable, or

nvme pcie 40 in 30 slot pcie is about 4x faster The add in cards plugged into a X4-X16 pcie slot will have some sort of adapter

nvme slot types Using PCI Express bandwidth with NVMe drives, SSDs can achieve the fastest SSD speeds available on the market, especially high-end PCI