SATA III drive in a SATA II motherboard?

I'm thinking of buying a SATA III SSD, but at the moment I only have SATA II sockets on my motherboard (upgrade planned for later this year). Would this configuration work, albeit bottlenecked, in the interim? I know that a SATA II drive will work in a a SATA III socket, but not sure about the other way around.

Thanks!

Should work fine, but as you say bottlenecked.

If you can call 250MB/s transfers & 50k random IOPS a bottleneck... :O_o1: ;)

Well I was half eyeing up the new intel SSD drives with over 400Mb/s transfer rates...

:)

Doubt you will actually notice the difference in anything other than benchmarks