SATAe has unique connectors (see Figure 8-14) but provides full backward compatibility with earlier versions of SATA. Note that the center and left portions of the port look just like regular SATA ports? They function that way too, so you can plug two regular SATA drives into a SATAe socket. Feel free to upgrade your motherboard! Oh yeah, did I forget to mention that? You’ll need a motherboard with SATAe support to take advantage of these superfast versions of SATA drives.
