@#$%^&* Seagate!

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I put a pair of 400GB 7200.10 HDDs in a RAID1 into my DS4/E6400 PC and wondered why Intel Storage Mangler reported them as Generation 1. Had a look at them today and found they each had an extremely small jumper forcing them into SATA1 mode. Wiggled 'em out and HD Tach reports a 50% increase in performance. Lesson learned.....

Jonathan

 

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Hmmm....it is clearly visible (or was for me) and you should know that all hard drives come with jumpers on them (usually set for spread spectrum or 150MB/s if SATA-II).

The only other SATA-II drives I have are Spinpoints and they came with the jumper in a bag with the fixing screws. Can't say I've ever seen any jumpers on SATA-I drives but I think the few I've had have all been Maxtors....