TP T60 SATA port / SATA III SSD?

Hi, I have an old IBM/Lenovo TP T60 1952-CTO and I need a new hard drive. I immediately thought of buying some SSD (probably Micron RealSSD C400 128/256GB used in new ThinkPads). The problem is that these new SSDs are equipped with SATA III interface. My question is if my T60 has a SATA II port and if I can use that (or similar) SSD with this laptop.
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Hello,
Yes, that should work fine.  Unlike with older computers, there really is no capacity limitation for machines with SATA interfaces.
Two other recommendations for upgrading are to bring your ThinkPad T60 up to 3GB of RAM (you can install 2×2GB of RAM, but the last 1GB of RAM will not be accessible due to chipset limitations) and to use a newer version of Windows than Windows XP on it, as the SSD, like all modern disk drives, uses a different sector size that Windows XP does not handle very well.  Windows Vista, 7 and 8 will all work fine, but most people seem to prefer Windows 7 due to its improvements over Vista.
Regards,
Aryeh Goretsky
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