Is SATA II backwards compatable?

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char507

Limp Gawd
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I just had a quick question before I blew my money on a new drive. If my motherboard only supports SATA I (150mb/s transfer rate) can I buy an SATA II drive and use it with my current motherboard until I decide to do a full system upgrade?
 
I just bought my first SATAII HDD two days ago. It's a Samsung T series and I see that I have an option to place a jumper to set it to 150gbs instead of 300gbs.
 
Okay, but you shouldn't *need* to set the jumper. And the jumper may do things like disable NCQ as well.

 
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