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Is my Sata II hard drive working at 300?




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I finally installed my new S-ATA II Hard Drive. I just wanted to know is there a program or something to see if it is working at 300 speeds?

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well I hope you know that the mechanical disk itself is nowhere near saturating the speed of the SATA interface.... so whether it is running at sata or sata2 doesn't relly matter that much. lol

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well i just upgraded from 4 years old ATA drive not SATA. But i can notice extreme performance gain in my load times in gaming with Hellgate london omg its 2 sec load now instead of like 5-8 seconds. So i guess i dont really need to know i can tell the difference. I would never have thought my hard drive was bottlenecking my system lol...


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Actually that is a really good question and i think the answer is no. Until recently thought mine was running at 300 but apparently it was running at 150. Turns out that most hard drives come with a jumper that limits the drive to 150 so that there is no incompatibility with old motherboards. I bought OEM and only found out yesterday after running at half the speed for a year. So i would check out the back of the drive and remove it if it is there. Should look like this > http://www.home.zonnet.nl/lwierenga/maxtorsata2.jpg

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Cool man, I bought the retail version so i was aware of removing the jumper.
Thanks for the heads up tho.


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