Question 1

Would this lower SATA3 speeds down to SATA speed?

Accepted Answer

No. If the motherboard and the hard drive both support Sata 3, then this will work. Because it is only a cable, it will not affect speeds.

Question 2

Will this work in a laptop?  Hear me out, I purchased a larger 2.5 HDD however it is thicker than a normal 2.5 HDD.  I need to bridge the connection from the laptop board to the HDD.  The drive WILL fit the HDD bay space, it just will not fit the pre-determined board spacing.

Accepted Answer

I did not purchase the cable for that purpose, but my purpose is similar.  With the use of a drive duplicator I make backups to my computer HHD to SSD 2.5" drives. you might have issues internal to the laptop computer, space. You might try doing what I did. use a product to make you new drive a duplicate of you older drive. Or I might not understand your issues.

Question 3

will this work with one of the SmarTech duplicators?

Accepted Answer

Yes, it would. The Duplicators would accept the connection.

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