Is this backward compatible with Sata 2? null

Yes, you can connect this SATA 3.0 6Gb/s solid state drive to a SATA 2.0 3 Gb/s port on your motherboard. The SATA 3.0 6Gb/s SSD's are backward compatible with SATA 2.0 3Gb/s ports. However, performance will be restricted to SATA 2.0 levels.

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Yes. It is compatible, but you won’t have much of an improvement due to slower bandwidth. I have an old HP laptop I threw an ssd in, and the sata 2 system actually seemed to run better with the original HDD. Then again, it was a single core processor.

“Is this backward compatible with Sata 2?”

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Yes, you can connect this SATA 3.0 6Gb/s solid state drive to a SATA 2.0 3 Gb/s port on your motherboard. The SATA 3.0 6Gb/s SSD's are backward compatible with SATA 2.0 3Gb/s ports. However, performance will be restricted to SATA 2.0 levels.
Answered by John 5 years ago
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Answered by Western Digital Team 5 years ago
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Yes. It is compatible, but you won’t have much of an improvement due to slower bandwidth. I have an old HP laptop I threw an ssd in, and the sata 2 system actually seemed to run better with the original HDD. Then again, it was a single core processor.
Answered by Radar1 5 years ago
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