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New Seagates from factory with the jumper limiting at 1.5 Gb/s ?

I just bought a Barracuda 7200.10 320GB and on the label there's a sticker explaining that you can set a jumper to limit the operation to 1.5 Gb/s rather than 3.0 Gb/s and the jumper is preset that way. Why would they slow down their HD's, to keep them colder and more reliable ? Should I remove the jumper and let it rip at 3 Gb/s ?

Iplayloud

Its mainly for motherboards (like mine) that only support the original SATA. If your mobo has SATAII, then use 3GBPS.

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Burgerbob

I thought it was backwards compatible, but on the other hand, that also makes sense..

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Jet

they are backwards compatible but some mobos wont recognize the hdd if it is set to run at 300gb if the mobo only supports 150gb so sata drives have a jumper to change 150 and 300 thus making it backwards compatible

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meanman

that's what makes them backwards compatible.

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