Very simple question I'm afraid, probably just me being idiotic... I have an old PC which I am looking to gradually upgrade and I'm thinking of adding a new HDD, probably a Samsung F3 as they have such good feedback. However this is a SATA 300 drive and my old motherboard only has SATA 150. Does this just mean that the HDD will be limited to a lower speed or will it not work at all? If it won't work I'll just wait until I update M/B and CPU etc but would like to get it into this unit if possible! Cheers!
yeah SATA II HDDs are usually backwards compatible. you will be limited to 150mb/s transfer which will limit your burst speed but normal read writes wont hit this barrier so you probly wont notice much. for the samsung you may need to change the jumper settings on the back to limit to SATA 150 if you have any issues.
