Does this drive work on sata II or just sata III?
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Potentially, yes, but maybe not. Depends on a few things including your BIOS. I have an older motherboard (nVidia 750i) and my mobo did NOT recognize this drive. From what I've read, I believe your bios needs to have AHCI capability to recognize this drive. From a SATA standpoint it should be entirely backwards compatible, but do your homework ahead of time just to be sure. Thankfully Amazon is great for returns and I was able to order a Sata II Crucial SSD. Granted, my mobo still didn't recognize the drive, but installing a cheap Sata III add-on card did the trick. Note: The Sata III add-on card still would NOT allow my older motherboard to see the Samsung Evo 840. Potentially, yes, but maybe not. Depends on a few things including your BIOS. I have an older motherboard (nVidia 750i) and my mobo did NOT recognize this drive. From what I've read, I believe your bios needs to have AHCI capability to recognize this drive. From a SATA standpoint it should be entirely backwards compatible, but do your homework ahead of time just to be sure. Thankfully Amazon is great for returns and I was able to order a Sata II Crucial SSD. Granted, my mobo still didn't recognize the drive, but installing a cheap Sata III add-on card did the trick. Note: The Sata III... » Read More Potentially, yes, but maybe not. Depends on a few things including your BIOS. I have an older motherboard (nVidia 750i) and my mobo did NOT recognize this drive. From what I've read, I believe your bios needs to have AHCI capability to recognize this drive. From a SATA standpoint it should be entirely backwards compatible, but do your homework ahead of time just to be sure. Thankfully Amazon is great for returns and I was able to order a Sata II Crucial SSD. Granted, my mobo still didn't recognize the drive, but installing a cheap Sata III add-on card did the trick. Note: The Sata III add-on card still would NOT allow my older motherboard to see the Samsung Evo 840. « Show Less
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I will like upgrade my Macbook unibody 2008, whit sad drive. This Samsung work with Sata 2,5 bps?
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It will work with both and according to Tom's Hardware bench testing you will not notice the difference in speed in normal use between 3 GBps and 6 GBps SATA.
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this would be a PATA drive to my knowledge. SATA has a small slot style connector instead of all the pins
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Sata III is backward compatible with SATA II and I. As is SATA II backward compatible to SATA I. But SATA I cannot run a SATA II or III drive. But i'm assuming this is the answer you were looking for as your question was a bit vague.
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SATA is backwards compatible. You just will get SATA2 speeds instead of SATA3. Of course mechanical HDD max out at SATA2 around 120-150 MB/s so it doesn't matter. And if you're not transferring from another SATA3 SSD then you will be bottlenecked at SATA2 anyway.
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Good question, it works with every other SATA .. it shouldn't be a problem. I haven't tried it on an SSD.
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It should work fine, though I haven't used that brand drive myself. It's the correct type (SATA III).
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This Drive is SATA3, but conforming to SATA3 means that SATA1 and 2 will still function. You just won't get the full performance the drive is capable of. It will plug and play with a SATA2 connection.
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It should work. Most Sata 3 will be backward compatible with sata2, which runs only 3G/s not 6G/s.
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It should be fine. SATA II drives are supposed to be backward compatible with first-generation SATA motherboards. There are a few exceptions to the automatic adjustment, but WD has a fix for that involving a jumper on the HDD: http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1337
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It is tricky wording. You will be compatible with Sata III drives but will be limited by the usb3 speed. Sata III is 6Gb/s usb3 is 5Gb/s.
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I don't know if it will. My computer is SATA III. Sorry I am not being much help for you!
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Your answer to both is yes because SATA is Serial ATA drive. Happy hunting.
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This will work with either SATA or PATA drives, connectors are included for both. I hooked up an old 250 GB.PATA drive as new motherboard had no connectors for it.
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Yes this HD will work on a SATA II two connection. The bottle neck is the SATA II connection it will work but wont be as fast as a SATA III connection.
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The optical drive SATA controller does not work at SATA III Speeds because it is made for optical drives and those drives do not exceed SATA II transfer speed plus your laptop would have to have an optical drive in order to have this controller (normally)
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Yes.. but sata II is slower then sata III so you'll get around 200-250 transfer speed as compared to The stated 500 at sata III.. but yes it should work.. also it's a 7 mm drive so you might need an adaptor as from my quick search yours take a standard 9mm.. the adaptor is basically a small mount tray so the ssd fits snug and not shaky..
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SATA III is backwards compatible with SATA I & II so it will work with this enclosure