Can I plug a standard SATA optical drive into a SATA 6.0gb/s port on my motherboard?

If it matters I have a Asus P8P67 LE P67 Socket 1155 USB 3.0 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard and a Samsung SH-S223L 22x DVD�RW DL & RAM with LightScribe SATA Optical Drive, why you ask, because I need the other SATA ports for hard drives ect.