Sata 2 motherboard connected with a sata 3 ssd

[raze2212]

So my dad has an old pic with a sata 2 connection on the mobo and it boots really slowly so he wanted to install an SSD can I just install any ssd? Or do I need something specific

 

[jay32267]

SATA 3 SSDs are backwards compatible with SATA 2. So you can do that.

 

[BadAsAl]

You will run at SATA II speeds though, but still 250MB/s read versus 60 to 90MB/s read will be a vast improvement.

 

[Dunlop0078]

Yeah, any SATA SSD should work with SATA 2. However it will be limited to SATA 2 speeds, max throughput is 300mb/s most SATA SSD's are capable of quite a bit better than that. However even with that limit the SSD will still be faster than pretty much any hard drive.

 

[Zerk2012]

So my dad has an old pic with a sata 2 connection on the mobo and it boots really slowly so he wanted to install an SSD can I just install any ssd? Or do I need something specific

Yes but their no reason to spend the money of the fastest SSD you can get a budget one will do fine and show a BIG improvement over a regular hard drive/

 

[raze2212]

So my dad has an old pic with a sata 2 connection on the mobo and it boots really slowly so he wanted to install an SSD can I just install any ssd? Or do I need something specific

Yes but their no reason to spend the money of the fastest SSD you can get a budget one will do fine and show a BIG improvement over a regular hard drive/

Thanks a lot i was just asking if I can install I obviously wouldn't have spent a lot of money on a 10 year pc but still thanks