« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2014, 01:52:33 am »
If all you have is sata 2 then yes sata 3 is backwards compatible. As for slower I have a friend that had me install one in his computer and the difference is so small you probably wont notice it especially if you are coming from a platter drive.
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