Could I plug in a Serial ATA II HDD Into a Serial ATA III port

Comrade_Tito

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Okay, the question is pretty simple , I have a WDC WD5000AAKS - 008AA0 500GB CAVIAR BLUE SATA II 16 hard drive I connected to my MSI K8N Neo4 motherboard (it had one Maxtor ATA HDD already plugged in before I bought the WDC). And now I'm bying a new PC with GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3P motherboard with Serial ATA III ports. Since I have stored a lot of data on the WDC (Divided into 2 partitons, with family photos and games, which is a LOT of data), I would like to just plug it in my new PC together with the stock HDD I got. Now, the simple question, could I plug it in or not?