Can I install a SATAII/SATAIII SSD in an 2.16 C2D 2006 iMac?

As the title suggests, I am after info on anyone who has a 2.16Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac and has upgraded the hard drive to be a SSD. My iMac is going in for repair this weekend due to a broken power supply, I had the original 500GB hard drive taken out, but I'm thinking about upgrading the hard drive to an SSD, however as the current SSD's are SATA-III I'm not sure if it would work. Ideally I would like to keep the 500GB hard drive in there as well as the SSD.
Thanks in advance.
Matt.

seen from the imac a hd is a hd it dont matter if it's an old facion type or an SSD the interface is 100% the same
if you go to the online apple store you can choose SSD disk as an option when you choose iMacs
also the option of having both a normal hd and a SSD disk
like here
http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MC812LL/A?

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Hey @RychuPL ,
Welcome to the HP Forums!
I understand you're unable to use your SSD in your DV7 notebook.
Were both drives connected during the tests that you have run? If so please disconnect the secondary drive and test with only the SSD installed. It could be that the BIOS is picking up part of the Boot MGR from the original drive and attempting to boot from it in some way. Only thing that really makes sense to me at the moment.
Another "solution" (and I use the term very loosely in this case) is to install Windows 7 or 8 while offline and turn off the Windows updates to prevent the crash, or if it crashes after a specific update, to uninstall and block that specific update:
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2. Press Windows Key + X.
3. Click Programs and Features.
4. Click View Installed Updates on the left hand side.
5. Click on the Installed On heading to sort by date installed.
6. Click on the update that was recently installed.
7. Click Uninstall at the top.
8. After you've uninstalled the updates test the startup.
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1. Click Start.
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3. Click Windows Update.
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To be frank I really don't have any suggestions other than that considering you've tried multiple operating systems with identical results.
Hopefully removing the HDD allows the SSD to work. In which case formatting the drive or running KillDisk would be the best option.
Hopefully that helps!
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