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There may be some sort of marking that indicates if the bay is only accepts Nvme drives on the front of the drive tray. Line this.
Another option would be to open the server and find the part number for the backplane on Google or Dell's page.
U.2 connectors and sata connectors are pretty similar, so It will be hard to tell only by watching the connector.
The link you've provided is the type of enclosure I've mentioned, that goes from m.2 to u.2 . I've never used one of those before, so I don't know how well they work, but there could be compatibility issues with some operating systems, especially if you plan on setting up RAID.
If the backplane ends up having SAS connectors, you could try and get used enterprise SAS SSDs. Sometimes they can be had for about the same price as consumer SATA SSDs. And the max sequential speed is 1.2 GB/s.