New Hard Drive no jumper casing (shunt)

[zinsae]

I just purchased an OEM Western Digital Caviar Green WD10EADS 1TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive and I noticed that it's missing the jumper shunt or jumper case. I've also read somewhere that SATA is not necessary to set jumper. Is it true or do I need to fine jumper shunt at the local store?

If I do get a jumper shunt, where would I need to set it? I'm only using this one hdd and on the hdd, it said pin 1 and 2 enables SSC ( Spread Spectrum Clocking), pin 3 and 4 enable PUIS (Power Up In Standby) and 5 and 6 enables 1.5GB PHY. Which one would I need to set.

Thank you much

 

[alevasseur14]

You don't need it.

 

[Soundmanred]

Originally posted by: alevasseur14
You don't need it unless the drive needs to be set to 1.5GB instead of 3GB for compatability.

:thumbsup:

 

[Paperdoc]

The older IDE drive controller system put two drives on one controller port and cable, and it was necessary to identify each of those drives by a hardware setting using jumpers. The SATA system only assigns one drive to each controller port, so no identifier is needed on the drive. Thus there are no jumpers to be set; there is no such thing as Master and Slave in the SATA system.

By the way, with IDE systems everyone got used to the idea that the Boot Drive was the Primary Master (by default), so confusion arose. Some people wrongly equate Boot Drive with Primary Master. They never were the same thing. In SATA systems with no Master (and often more than Primary and Secondary channels), the Boot Drive is the one you tell it to use in the BIOS Setup.

As Soundmanred says, though, some drive makers designed a way to make newer SATAII drives (3 Gb/s) backwards compatible with the first SATA (1.5 Gb/s) standard by placing one jumper on a pair of pins to slow it down. Not all drive makers did that job this way, though. If you have SATAII controllers in your system, you can ignore this completely.