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Are sata 2 and sata 3 compatible? Say I'm connecting a sata 3 cable into my sata 3 connector on my motherboard then connecting the other end to a sata 2 device, would that work?

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Yes.

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Are sata 2 and sata 3 compatible? Say I'm connecting a sata 3 cable into my sata 3 connector on my motherboard then connecting the other end to a sata 2 device, would that work?

Yeah, all SATA cables are the same except some lock and some don't.

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I believe so

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SATA, PCIE and USB revisions are compatible. (of course not sata to usb, but sata to sata ;) )

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Yes.

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SATA, PCIE and USB revisions are compatible. (of course not sata to usb, but sata to sata ;) )

I love things like that

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SATA, PCIE and USB revisions are compatible. (of course not sata to usb, but sata to sata ;) )

Does that mean I can plug my PCIE SATA drive in a USB port?

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Does that mean I can plug my PCIE SATA drive in a USB port?

only if it has an IDE power cable

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Who DaFreak Uses Sata 2

most HDDs still ;)

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Do sata 2 cables still exist?

they are exactly the same as SATA1 and SATA3 except that with SATA2 they were revised to have an (optional) locking mechanism

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Who DaFreak Uses Sata 2

I have an old device

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Are sata 2 and sata 3 compatible? Say I'm connecting a sata 3 cable into my sata 3 connector on my motherboard then connecting the other end to a sata 2 device, would that work?

 

Hey The Dragon,
 
All SATA devices and connectors are backwards and forwards compatible. You should have no problem using SATA 2 device on a SATA 3 port. The only concern would be the speed as it would be as fast as the slower link (in your case, the SATA2 speed of the drive).
I have an older laptop with SATA2 port and I have no problem using my SATA3 WD Black2 in it. :)
 
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Hey The Dragon,
 
All SATA devices and connectors are backwards and forwards compatible. You should have no problem using SATA 2 device on a SATA 3 port. The only concern would be the speed as it would be as fast as the slower link (in your case, the SATA2 speed of the drive).
I have an older laptop with SATA2 port and I have no problem using my SATA3 WD Black2 in it. :)
 
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Ok Thank you

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