Making the Seagate Barracuda sing!!!

Craigvarr · 24 Mar 2007 at 16:44

Hello,

On the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 200GB ST3200820AS SATA-II 8MB Cache and Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620A ATA-100 16MB Cache do you have to fully remove the jumper or move the jumper to make them sing :confused:

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rpstewart · 24 Mar 2007 at 16:49

Only the SATA one has a "limiter" jumper. It's only purpose is to force the drive to operate in SATA1 mode for older boards which do not support auto speed negotiation. Removing the jumper makes no real world difference, the drive is incapable of sustained transfers above about 80Mb/s let alone the 150Mb/s which SATA1 allows. All that increases is the burst transfer rate which has very little effect on normal usage.

Craigvarr · 24 Mar 2007 at 16:51

My board is a Asus P5B Deluxe (Socket 775), worth while removing the jumpers?

rpstewart · 24 Mar 2007 at 17:09

If you can reach it without dismantling the whole thing then go ahead and remove it, otherwise don't bother. As I said earlier you won't notice a difference between having the jumper on or off.