The Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 HDD

Notorious Lee · 12 May 2007 at 14:47

I am just installing 2 x Seagate Barracuda's in my rig & have read somewhere before that on the back of them is a jumper block.

This jumper block must be removed for them to operate more efficiently I have also been told.

If this is the case is the jumper block on the back where there are 4 pins & is it the little grey block connected to 2 of the pins?

If so how is this removed?

Thanks.

Gonzo0 · 12 May 2007 at 14:50

just pull it off, helps if you have girly nails at hand

Phil99 · 12 May 2007 at 15:07

Sounds like it, but you'll only see a performance increase if you have a SATA2 compatible motherboard/controller card.

semi-pro waster · 12 May 2007 at 15:24

It is the little grey block but as Phil99 says you only remove it if you have a motherboard capable of 300mb/s, otherwise leave it on as not all motherboards auto-negotiate to the correct speed.

Notorious Lee · 12 May 2007 at 18:50

I have an Asus P5N32E-SLi Motherboard.

Notorious Lee · 12 May 2007 at 19:50

In fact just looking at the technical spec of this motherboard it does state it is SATA II.

So I should take off the jumper(s)??

tipes · 12 May 2007 at 20:26

Notorious Lee said:
In fact just looking at the technical spec of this motherboard it does state it is SATA II.

So I should take off the jumper(s)??

Yes - to enable SATA 2 speed. Great drives btw.

Mark

Notorious Lee · 12 May 2007 at 20:28

Thanks for the reply.

p.s How do you get a avatar?

Will_3rd · 12 May 2007 at 20:36

you need a 100 posts to get your first one, should be available in your profile after.

nc11 · 14 May 2007 at 19:24

Notorious Lee said:
If this is the case is the jumper block on the back where there are 4 pins & is it the little grey block connected to 2 of the pins?

If so how is this removed?

Thanks.

Yes, this will double you're drive's speed assuming your mobo supports it. Just pull it out and you're done.

Trippynet · 14 May 2007 at 19:51

nc11 said:
Yes, this will double you're drive's speed assuming your mobo supports it. Just pull it out and you're done.

Oh no it won't. It'll double the /interface/ speed to 3Gb/s. In reality, it'll offer virtually no improvement in performance unless you plonk the drives into a striped RAID as current drives can't even max out a 1.5Gb/s interface.

Nelly · 14 May 2007 at 22:42

Quite warm these Seagates when in use, hope its part of the spec.

ByteJuggler · 15 May 2007 at 11:09

nc11 said:
Yes, this will double you're drive's speed assuming your mobo supports it. Just pull it out and you're done.

Well, it doubles the theoretical peak throughput, and affects the burst rate as measured on e.g. HDTach. In practice however, it makes virtually no difference.

ByteJuggler · 15 May 2007 at 11:13

Nelly said:
Quite warm these Seagates when in use, hope its part of the spec.

They are slightly warmer, but shouldn't be really very much so with proper ventilation. Mine idles at around 34C or so. Their max operational temperature is 60C (as opposed to 55C for most other drives.)

Sukh · 15 May 2007 at 11:50

Had the drive a year and didnt know, thanks

c61ll · 5 Sep 2007 at 19:41

i know its an old post but should i remover the jumper on this drive with an abit ip35 pro?

Thanks

Carling · 5 Sep 2007 at 19:46

Sukh said:
Had the drive a year and didnt know, thanks

+1!!
I'm going to do this now

semi-pro waster · 6 Sep 2007 at 07:34

c61ll said:
i know its an old post but should i remover the jumper on this drive with an abit ip35 pro?

Thanks

It won't do any harm for your to do so, the jumper just limits the max burst speed and since the IP35 pro can handle speeds of up to 300MB/s then you are as well to even if the increase is mainly theoretical.

Also your signature needs a bit of editing to be under 400 pixels in length, it seems this version of vB no longer does a wraparound function once it reaches the stated maximum length for signatures.

Vlad Drac · 6 Sep 2007 at 22:50

I have 2 of these drives set up in Raid0.
If I remove the jumpers now will it effect the array and cause it to fail?

semi-pro waster · 7 Sep 2007 at 07:03

I can't remember offhand if the A8N-SLi supports SATA 300MB/s so I don't know if it will make any difference, particularly given the burst speed doesn't have a huge amount of relevance outside of benchmarks. If you have data you need on those drives then I'd suggest not doing it on the offchance it will go wrong although that does raise the question why you'd trust valuable data to a Raid0 array.