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White_lightning
10-16-2007, 10:36 PM
Just picked up a new SATA drive and it has a jumper for "limit to 1.5 g/sec or 3 with no jumper.. what is the use to limit it? i have another SATA drive that came un jumpered(3gb..)
Neiladin
10-16-2007, 10:59 PM
[QUOTE=White_lightning]Just picked up a new SATA drive and it has a jumper for "limit to 1.5 g/sec or 3 with no jumper.. what is the use to limit it? i have another SATA drive that came un jumpered(3gb..)[/QUOTE]
heat issues maybe? maybe the life span of the drive is shorter with the full 3gbps transfer unlimited? those are th eonly two thinks i can think of.
White_lightning
10-16-2007, 11:00 PM
never mind. found it. not all MBs support the SATA II 3.0gb
red04gt
10-20-2007, 05:40 PM
yep older mobos are sata 1.5
Neiladin
10-21-2007, 02:53 PM
well that makes sense... dont know why i didnt think of that earlier. :o