What sort of drives are you using, if we're just talking basic mechanical hard drives then chances are they won't be able to saturate even a 3Gb/s SATA II connection so you'd be able to use them with your board's SATA II ports without any performance degradation. SATA II 3Gb/s can support up to 300MB/s of data throughput so worth either looking up performance benchmarks for your particular drives (or test them yourself with them hooked up to the SATA III ports), if they max out at less than 300MB/s then I'd just connect them to the motherboard's SATA II ports.