Hello people!
I just recently got a WD5002AALX Caviar black 500 GB SATA III hard drive. I'm going to connect this to a GA-EP45-UD3P board(only has SATAII support)
The hard drive did not come with a jumper, is it necessary to jumper the hard drive into 3.0gpbs mode for the hard drive to function properly on my board or am I safe to run it without the jumper? If I do need to use a jumper, will a jumper from an older maxtor(circa 2002) IDE hard drive work?
Also the reason I got this new hard drive is because I had to replace an older WD model(WD5001AALS) Hard drive because it had failed. This is the 2nd time my WD hard drive has failed on me in about a 1 year and 10 month span.(thank god for my 2 year instant replacement plan I purchased for 8 bucks ) I have a p182 case and I mount the hard drives in the bottom cage which mount vertically. I know everyone says it really doesn't matter vertically or horizontally, only if you suddenly change halfway thru it's life(which I havn't). But really, can someone please tell me they have a p182 case and have mounted their hard drives vertically and they're working just fine to ease my mind?
Also when monitoring HD temps with Speedfan I saw a max of 45C and that was without using a fan at bottom. The Hard drive usually hovered around 41C-45C after warming up.
Are these temps a little high? or are they ok?
my specs:
Antec P182
GA-EP45-UD3P
E8500 3.16 ghz
Corsair dominator DDR2 1066 mhz
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 512 mb
WD5002AALX 500 GB SATA Caviar black
LG DVD Burner
PS. I havn't logged on in here in like forever cuz I didn't realise tomshardware wouldn't allow me to login unless I sent referrer header, it was driving me nuts not knowing why I couldn't login. :lol:
I just recently got a WD5002AALX Caviar black 500 GB SATA III hard drive. I'm going to connect this to a GA-EP45-UD3P board(only has SATAII support)
The hard drive did not come with a jumper, is it necessary to jumper the hard drive into 3.0gpbs mode for the hard drive to function properly on my board or am I safe to run it without the jumper? If I do need to use a jumper, will a jumper from an older maxtor(circa 2002) IDE hard drive work?
Also the reason I got this new hard drive is because I had to replace an older WD model(WD5001AALS) Hard drive because it had failed. This is the 2nd time my WD hard drive has failed on me in about a 1 year and 10 month span.(thank god for my 2 year instant replacement plan I purchased for 8 bucks ) I have a p182 case and I mount the hard drives in the bottom cage which mount vertically. I know everyone says it really doesn't matter vertically or horizontally, only if you suddenly change halfway thru it's life(which I havn't). But really, can someone please tell me they have a p182 case and have mounted their hard drives vertically and they're working just fine to ease my mind?
Also when monitoring HD temps with Speedfan I saw a max of 45C and that was without using a fan at bottom. The Hard drive usually hovered around 41C-45C after warming up.
Are these temps a little high? or are they ok?
my specs:
Antec P182
GA-EP45-UD3P
E8500 3.16 ghz
Corsair dominator DDR2 1066 mhz
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 512 mb
WD5002AALX 500 GB SATA Caviar black
LG DVD Burner
PS. I havn't logged on in here in like forever cuz I didn't realise tomshardware wouldn't allow me to login unless I sent referrer header, it was driving me nuts not knowing why I couldn't login. :lol: