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SATA-III is SATA of generation 3.0. You are unlikely to locate a new SSD that is not of the SATA-III variety, which dates to at least a year before your Intel SATA controller. Even if you found an older generation SSD, you could still use it due to the forward/backward compatibility built into the SATA spec. An older spec device would mainly be limited to a slower maximum throughput. Likewise, if the controller was an older spec device while the SSD was newer, the same maximum speed limitation would apply.
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SATA-III is SATA of generation 3.0. You are unlikely to locate a new SSD that is not of the SATA-III variety, which dates to at least a year before your Intel SATA controller. Even if you found an older generation SSD, you could still use it due to the forward/backward compatibility built into the SATA spec. An older spec device would mainly be limited to a slower maximum throughput. Likewise, if the controller was an older spec device while the SSD was newer, the same maximum speed limitation would apply.
So the advertised as new SSDs are all SATA III even if it only reads SATA ?
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