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| 659414 | 2008-04-16 05:11:00 | Well.... I just bought 2 ST3500320AS 500gb hard drives. And I found that they came out of the box with a jumper attached that LIMITED them to SATA150. I removed the jumper and they become SATA300. AND The same jumper was on my ST31000340AS 1000gb hard drive. So if you have purchased ANY Seagate drives lately then I would suggest you check if the jumper is there, if so remove it so you can get full speed out of your drive (***be carefull***). I was recovering from a Western Digital Caviar WD5000KS Hard Disk Drive, 500GB, 7200rpm, 16384KB Cache, SATA-2 hard drive failure... drive only purchased in Oct 2006... but warranty out... Seagate has a 5yr warranty...! |
zcc (50) | ||
| 659415 | 2008-04-16 05:32:00 | Yep, well aware of that. :) I'm sure some members will be pleased for the heads up. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 659416 | 2008-04-16 07:01:00 | Are the jumpers there to limit the drives for older MoBo's? | nofam (9009) | ||
| 659417 | 2008-04-16 08:55:00 | yes, although most controllers can automatically fall back to 1.5 if 3.0 is not supported. the jumper is there for when that fails to work properly |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 659418 | 2008-04-16 11:51:00 | Well.... I just bought 2 ST3500320AS 500gb hard drives. And I found that they came out of the box with a jumper attached that LIMITED them to SATA150. So if you have purchased ANY Seagate drives lately then I would suggest you check if the jumper is there, if so remove it so you can get full speed out of your drive (***be carefull***). The only part of the drive that can transfer data faster than 150MB/s is the cache memory and that won't make much difference overall. The data comes off the disk around 80MB/s max. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 659419 | 2008-04-16 11:56:00 | I was recovering from a Western Digital Caviar WD5000KS Hard Disk Drive, 500GB, 7200rpm, 16384KB Cache, SATA-2 hard drive failure... drive only purchased in Oct 2006... but warranty out... Seagate has a 5yr warranty...! Western Digital Hard Drives have a 3 year warranty so your one should be repaired/replaced. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 659420 | 2008-04-16 13:29:00 | I have one of these hd's, they are blazingly fast. The Seagate 7200.7 it replaced averaged about 40 m/b read speed in hdtach the new seagate reads 97 on average. | apsattv (7406) | ||
| 659421 | 2008-04-17 14:11:00 | The only part of the drive that can transfer data faster than 150MB/s is the cache memory and that won't make much difference overall. The data comes off the disk around 80MB/s max. Really? Well it sure seems faster and the benchmarks have improved a whole lot. For the 1TB drive. The website IMPLIES that its 300 out of the box when it is not. |
zcc (50) | ||
| 659422 | 2008-04-18 04:27:00 | W D drives do not all have 3yrs. Try having a chat to Dick Smith about that! | PENTIUM (426) | ||
| 659423 | 2008-04-18 06:12:00 | I was recovering from a Western Digital Caviar WD5000KS Hard Disk Drive, 500GB, 7200rpm, 16384KB Cache, SATA-2 hard drive failure . . . drive only purchased in Oct 2006 . . . but warranty out . . . Where did you buy it? AFAIK WD hard drives also had 3 year warranties 18 months ago . Apart from Dick Smith that is . :rolleyes: |
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