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01-10-2007, 12:13 PM
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Seagate SATA 3.0 Drives
I'm sure many of you know this, but I discovered this by accident and thought I'd share it with the newer builders like myself.
When you buy an OEM Seagate SATA 3.0 drive, you get no instructions with it. I found out, by searching their website that these drives are shipped jumpered to transfer at 1.5GB/s so that they work with legacy boards. Remove this jumper, you get 3.0. When I removed mine, there was a noticeable difference in speed. Especially at startup. Here's a link to the page showing this: http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.js...00dd04090aRCRD Happy building!!
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01-10-2007, 12:45 PM
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01-10-2007, 01:07 PM
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Yes..derrrr
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01-16-2007, 12:53 PM
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Just did it! Nice lil boost in performance there! It'll be better when I finally kill those startup objects all over the place...
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01-16-2007, 01:58 PM
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Wow.... didn't know that- thanks. I'm about to buy one.
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01-24-2007, 10:59 AM
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Thanks for that tip. I put a 7200.9 in a build last summer for a friend. I'll have to go back and pull it. I'm new at this so that's it??? Just yank it out?
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01-24-2007, 11:08 AM
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Yeah, just don't bend anything. I used one arm of a pair of tweezers to grab it...ground it first against the metal case or something, just in case.
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01-25-2007, 06:56 PM
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Seriously? Oh my, giving that a shot now!
Edit: Turns out mine came without a jumper, so I've been enjoying 3 GB/s speeds all along. I did see the label with the jumper instructions though
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