3 Gb/s on Seagate 320gigs

nobly

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That jumper is there for 1.5Gbps motherboard SATA ports. No difference for a single drive anyways. If it works fine now, just leave it alone. You have nothing to gain.
 
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the interface being PATA133/SATA150/SATA300. Modern hd get 50-60meg/sec...
 

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The only consideration is whether your HDD controller is able to handle 3Gb/s (SATA II) speeds. If it can, no problem in switching (most often, by removing a tiny jumper on the drive). The only reason the drive comes with the limiting jumper installed is to guarantee that it will work even if your controller can only handle SATA I speeds.
 

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No draw backs unless your mother board only supports 1.5 gbs,then you will have all kinds of probs.But as long as it does support 3gbs go for broke man.Goodluck.

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I've never yet bought a seagate .9 or .10 that came with a jumper installed. I keep wondering about all these jumper questions. I guess I'd need to find one if I had buggered SATA controllers.