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Seagate Barracuda

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StevenNevets

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Alright so I've heard about these Hard Drives running slower then they should.
Because of a jumper or something.

Now I'm getting help with the building of my new computer and need to tell the guy what to do so I don't run into this problem.

I posted the question on another board and got what sounds like a reasonable response to tell the builder, but no one else said anything about it so I'd like to be sure this guy is correct.

"Look at the back of the drive where the data cable and power plug in, to the right I believe. You'll see a light colored piece of plastic. Get some tweezers and CAREFULLY remove it."
 
Seagate 7200.10 SATA2 HDs don't come w/ jumper plugged in, so it runs on 3.0GB instead of 1.5GB if you had the jumper plugged in.
 
Originally posted by: Engineer
Originally posted by: StevenNevets
I'm not the buider for a reason:laugh:

Here's the OEM HD I'm getting...

Does it apply to me?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822148140
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My drive (same as above) came with Jumper installed for 1.5GB/sec operation. If you have SATA II (3GB/sec) on your board, you'll want to remove the jumper.
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ya my motherboard supports it from what I see
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813136015

But how are the directions in the first post (think that is enough detail, or is it atleast accurate?)

 
That's accurate in as far as removing the jumper (black plastic) to set your drive to SATA II (3Gb/sec). However, I doubt that you'll get much gain (if any) from this setting. Might help your burst a tad but overall, it will average about the same speed either way.
 
The only time you have any chance of seeing any benefit is when transferring from/ to your HDD cache. so it really doesnt matter.
 
Yeah, I removed the jumper from the back of my drive as well. Its a pretty small jumper too. Both the 250Gb & 320Gb versions are like this from what I heard. Seems to be alot of controversy though about seeing actual performance difference. From posts I read half say it does increase and half say it doesnt. if you want it to run SATA II I'd say go ahead and remove the jumper. Cant hurt anything.
 
Originally posted by: Engineer
That's accurate in as far as removing the jumper (black plastic) to set your drive to SATA II (3Gb/sec). However, I doubt that you'll get much gain (if any) from this setting. Might help your burst a tad but overall, it will average about the same speed either way.
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The jumper on mine was actually light blue IIRC. Anyway yes, just remove it or do what I did; slide it onto just one of the middle pins, so it points "up" and doesn't connect to any other pins.
 
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