Adding an SSD (SATA III) to HP Elite desktop. Is it possible?

Dear Experts...
I would like to upgrade my computer adding an SSD drive as a master drive and shifting the original 2TB drive to be a slave.
I found several coices of SSD drives but almost all of them are SATA III interface.
Does my desktop supports this interface? as it is just written that it has a SATA interface without specifying which version of SATA!
How many hard drives could this desktop holds? I already have two (the original 2TB, and my old 256GB drive), and I wand to add one SSD for Windows and progs.
Can I buy this SSD for example? Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State ...
This is the official HP specifications page of my Desktop .
Thank you in advance for your help.
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Hi,
It has 2 spare HDD bays as on its specs:
     http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c02781215
You can swap SSD on your machine and make the old HDD as a secondary ("slave") drive. SATA III is backward compatible therefore you can use it. Since SSD's are smaller (normally 2.5") you need something which is similar to one of the following brackets:
   http://pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=210_901
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