I am updating my personal computer's hard disk to an SSD drive soon, and I see there are two main types of drives, SATA II and SATA III. My computer's motherboard was made for SATA 3GBPS, will a SATA III drive still run on it?
fuggles 0 Junior Poster in Training
crunchie 990 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Yes. It will just run at the slower speed.
fuggles 0 Junior Poster in Training
Ok thank you, I was just making sure that there was no difference in the serial protocol or anything. No hard drive, even SSD can send 3GBPS through the cable anyway. SATA just has that capability.
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