Can I install a SATA 6 Gb/s SSD on a laptop that came with a SATA 1.5 Gb/s hard drive?

Question

I am having a ASUS F8Vr laptop. It has a 250GB SATA I HDD. I am planing of changing it to a SSD HDD, may b Corsair Force Series GS CSSD-F360GBGS-BK. Not decided yet. Can I do this?

I know the performance of the disk will be reduced as it is SATA III but I will be upgrading the laptop in some time. Till then can SSD replace my current HDD?

Specs of my current HDD.

Answer 1

As the SATA connectors and communication protocol have remained backwards compatible across versions, there should not be a problem with installing the drive. See this Wikipedia article for more details.