Can I plug a SATA 3 drive into a SATA 2 port?
SATA III devices are backwards-compatible with SATA II. You can plug any SATA III device into a SATA II port. Note that you will experience a reduction in (theoretical) performance, as SATA II is an older, slower standard (3 Gb/s as opposed to SATA III's 6 Gb/s).
Can I use SATA 3 HDD on SATA 2 motherboard?
Can a SATA 3 HDD work on a SATA 2 motherboard? Yes it can, and you might not even notice there's anything wrong since the read/write performance of a hard disk is not bottlenecked by any revision of the SATA interface whatsoever.
Can SATA 3 SSD connect to SATA 1?
You should, technicall, be able to take a SATA 3 drive and plug it into a SATA 1 port and the drive will work just fine. It will only function at SATA 1 speeds, but it will work. The opposite should work as well, plugging a SATA 1 (or SATA 2) drive into a SATA 3 port will still work.
Can I put SSD on SATA 2?
In this article we will answer the question, is SSD on SATA 2 or the 3 GB/s interface used by the older computers worth it, The answer is definitely yes and you will see that in the following Real-World benchmarks and comparisons to a HDD. You can watch the following video or read the written article below.