Quick question about Seagate 7200.10 drives

Fireskull · 12 Jan 2007 at 00:25

If i remove the pin thingy to make it full speed after its got data on it, it wont mess up any of my data will it?

mosfet · 12 Jan 2007 at 00:37

If you're regarding the SATA-150 legacy jumpers then no, there's no reason for it to cause data errors, just make sure your chipset is capable of SATA-3Gbps (SATA-II) speed. Even if it can't, the drive should auto-negotiate.

james.miller · 12 Jan 2007 at 00:39

yep its fine. just did it with my 7200.10 500gb. forget to take it off before i installed lol

Fireskull · 12 Jan 2007 at 01:24

hehe sames lol, i got a second 320 drive and read the label and looked at my original and slapped myself

and yea i think my mobo can handle sata2

rpstewart · 12 Jan 2007 at 09:09

Just be aware that you won't notice any difference by removing the jumper, all that will happen is that the burst transfer rate will go up but any serious amount of disk usage will be reliant on the sustained transfer rate which isn't limited by running in SATA1 mode.

Fireskull · 12 Jan 2007 at 09:31

rpstewart said:
Just be aware that you won't notice any difference by removing the jumper, all that will happen is that the burst transfer rate will go up but any serious amount of disk usage will be reliant on the sustained transfer rate which isn't limited by running in SATA1 mode.

K K cheers for the info

aardvark · 12 Jan 2007 at 11:16

one thing i noticed recently has got me confused - i have a sata-I motherboard and one of my hard drives failed a few weeks ago so i sent it back to seagate - anyway, that drive was a sataII but had no jumper on it at all - it worked fine but the burst speed was over 200mb/s. I never really thought about it until today as the new drive to replace it does have a jumper on it, which i left at sataI, and the burst speed is less than 150mb/s.

how is it possible that the burst speed of the old drive was higher than 150mb/s if the MB only supports sataI?? - i'm confused.

Minstadave · 12 Jan 2007 at 16:51

aardvark said:
one thing i noticed recently has got me confused - i have a sata-I motherboard and one of my hard drives failed a few weeks ago so i sent it back to seagate - anyway, that drive was a sataII but had no jumper on it at all - it worked fine but the burst speed was over 200mb/s. I never really thought about it until today as the new drive to replace it does have a jumper on it, which i left at sataI, and the burst speed is less than 150mb/s.

how is it possible that the burst speed of the old drive was higher than 150mb/s if the MB only supports sataI?? - i'm confused.

What mobo is it?

aardvark · 12 Jan 2007 at 17:16

its the foxconn nforce4 ultra - i think i've had it 2 years.

Minstadave · 12 Jan 2007 at 17:17

aardvark said:
its the foxconn nforce4 ultra - i think i've had it 2 years.

The Nforce4 Ultra chipset supports SATA-II natively.

aardvark · 12 Jan 2007 at 23:18

Minstadave said:
The Nforce4 Ultra chipset supports SATA-II natively.

really? i didn't know that -i'll take the jumper off my other drive then - cheers.