Does a SATA II device work with a SATA mobo?

[ihaveaname]

Umm, this was probably a stupid question, but, SATA II hard drives are easier to find than SATA hard drives. Could I just buy a SATA II drive for my netbook (which I think has a SATA HDD)?

The netbook is an Acer Aspire One D260.

 

[Mark56]

This will probably be ok but I would check with Acer first.

 

[SNGX1275]

I'm not sure on notebook drives, but a lot of SATA II desktop drives can be made SATA I with a jumper. If the drive you are looking at has a jumper for that then I'm sure it would work.

 

[ihaveaname]

Okay thanks for the help guys!

 

[Steve]

Short answer is "Yes", SATA is backwards compatible just as USB is.

 

[captaincranky]

I'm not sure on notebook drives, but a lot of SATA II desktop drives can be made SATA I with a jumper. If the drive you are looking at has a jumper for that then I'm sure it would work.

A while back, (2 or 3+ years ago), I think that Seagate drives were shipped jumpered to SATA 1 (150Gbs). I remember having to pull it for the SATA 2 spec to work. AFAIK, WD never required this. (I hope I don't have this backwards with respect to brand). With that said, I interchange SATA 2 drives on my SATA 1 mobo (Intel 915 desktop), with absolutely no regard for jumpers. They work fine. Intel 915 is 6+ years old.