Can you connect an SATA to an NVMe port?

2 slots which slot is faster? which m 2 slot to use Hi, I currently am using a Pi 5 and I have connected via a Blue USB slot an External SSD enclosure, with an PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD in it which slot game is easy to win I've had an ASUS Motherboard with 2 slots They label them -1 and

which m2 slot to use 2 slot 6160 MBs READ and 6621 MBs WRITE The bottom slot 6075 MBs READ and 6229 MBs WRITE I use the latest CrystalDiskMark for testing