• Welcome to Overclockers Forums! Join us to reply in threads, receive reduced ads, and to customize your site experience!

Use 1.5 or 3GBp/s mode?

Overclockers is supported by our readers. When you click a link to make a purchase, we may earn a commission. Learn More.

ps2cho

Member
Joined
Oct 13, 2004
I see one of the jumpers on my Seagate backup drives still has the 1.5GBp/s jumper installed.

Should I remove it to run @ 3GBp/s or does throughput never reach that bandwidth?
 
Nah, hard drives haven't yet completely saturated SATA 150, though the newest generation of drives are starting to approach the practical limit.

I wouldn't go out of my way to remove the jumper, but if you happen to have the drive in front of you, you may as well pull it off.
 
Gotcha...I didn't think it was bottlenecking me. Everything is back in nicely...so I'll do it next time.
Thanks.
 
Its not bottlenecking you but not sure if the jumper will disable certain features that are SATA2 compliant.

In the end it can't hurt to have it enabled. And burst speeds can be faster.
 
I'd pull the jumper off, personally.
No need to handicap the drive, though the likelihood of it actually hitting 180MB/second(minus whatever overhead there is) is pretty minimal.
 
Back