Old HP laptop and SSD drive

Hi there!
I have old HP NC4400 laptop (which serves me really well) and I`m thinking about SSD drive to replace standard HDD. Please advice me if my laptop can serve at speed of sata1, sata2 or sata3 ssd drives? I`m not sure if it`s worth paying more for sata3 ssd if my laptop can`t handle that speed? Thanks

As far as I remember the 945gm mobile chipset is Sata 1 only so no point going for SSD, if you want little better performance from drive you would best look at a 500GB WD Black 7,200rpm drive as will be a little quicker, backward compatable to sata1 & is a durable drive too.
On 965 chipsets with sata 2 support we do SSD's & compared to WD Black even then difference is not huge, WD Black will be quite affordable & worth while upgrde ...
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