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I'm looking at a 1TB hard drive from WD and am wondering if I can use a sataIII drive until I can upgrade motherboard?
Asus M3A78-CM motherboard need to replace HDD
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I'm sorry to hear about that, renegade682! 
No, you cannot pay us to fix the issue. You can, however, get in touch with our technical support and let them know about the broken SATA connector on your WD Black drive. They would be able to provide you with further details on how you should proceed with that HDD of yours.
Here are their contacts: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=A5mfZZ
Hope it helps.
SuperSoph_WD
No, you cannot pay us to fix the issue. You can, however, get in touch with our technical support and let them know about the broken SATA connector on your WD Black drive. They would be able to provide you with further details on how you should proceed with that HDD of yours. Here are their contacts: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=A5mfZZ
Hope it helps.
SuperSoph_WD
SuperSoph_WD
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Welcome to the community, renegade682!
Yes, you can use a SATA III HDD in your motherboard's SATA II ports. It doesn't really make a difference for mechanical hard drives. A SATA III (6Gb/s) port is required if you are planning to use an SSD for example, mostly because a SATA II (3Gb/s) port would bottleneck the speed and performance of the solid-state drive.
In your case, I don't think you'd have anything to worry about. The WD HDD you are planning to upgrade your storage with should deliver the same read/write speeds, regardless of whether or not it's connected to a 3Gb/s or a 6Gb/s SATA port.
Hope this helps.
SuperSoph_WD
Yes, you can use a SATA III HDD in your motherboard's SATA II ports. It doesn't really make a difference for mechanical hard drives. A SATA III (6Gb/s) port is required if you are planning to use an SSD for example, mostly because a SATA II (3Gb/s) port would bottleneck the speed and performance of the solid-state drive.
In your case, I don't think you'd have anything to worry about. The WD HDD you are planning to upgrade your storage with should deliver the same read/write speeds, regardless of whether or not it's connected to a 3Gb/s or a 6Gb/s SATA port.
Hope this helps.
SuperSoph_WD
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SuperSoph_WD :
Welcome to the community, renegade682!
Yes, you can use a SATA III HDD in your motherboard's SATA II ports. It doesn't really make a difference for mechanical hard drives. A SATA III (6Gb/s) port is required if you are planning to use an SSD for example, mostly because a SATA II (3Gb/s) port would bottleneck the speed and performance of the solid-state drive.
In your case, I don't think you'd have anything to worry about. The WD HDD you are planning to upgrade your storage with should deliver the same read/write speeds, regardless of whether or not it's connected to a 3Gb/s or a 6Gb/s SATA port.
Hope this helps.
SuperSoph_WD
Yes, you can use a SATA III HDD in your motherboard's SATA II ports. It doesn't really make a difference for mechanical hard drives. A SATA III (6Gb/s) port is required if you are planning to use an SSD for example, mostly because a SATA II (3Gb/s) port would bottleneck the speed and performance of the solid-state drive.
In your case, I don't think you'd have anything to worry about. The WD HDD you are planning to upgrade your storage with should deliver the same read/write speeds, regardless of whether or not it's connected to a 3Gb/s or a 6Gb/s SATA port.
Hope this helps.
SuperSoph_WD
Thanks for the reply. I currently have a 650 gb WD Black drive but the sata connection point is broke can I pay WD to fix this issue?
SuperSoph_WD
Glorious
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I'm sorry to hear about that, renegade682! No, you cannot pay us to fix the issue. You can, however, get in touch with our technical support and let them know about the broken SATA connector on your WD Black drive. They would be able to provide you with further details on how you should proceed with that HDD of yours.
Here are their contacts: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=A5mfZZ
Hope it helps.
SuperSoph_WD
No, you cannot pay us to fix the issue. You can, however, get in touch with our technical support and let them know about the broken SATA connector on your WD Black drive. They would be able to provide you with further details on how you should proceed with that HDD of yours. Here are their contacts: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=A5mfZZ
Hope it helps.
SuperSoph_WD
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