Hard Drive Speed

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Fri Nov 9 23:28:00 UTC 2007


Ric Moore wrote:
> 
> Just for ducks, why would they set the drive to half speed? Think it
> might have failed some reliability test at the factory?? Am I about to
> bork my drive if I find it set to half-speed and return it to full? I
> know that any answer would be pure speculation, but I want to make a
> reasonable decision. 
> 
Because the controller it is connected to does not support full
speed? The speed jumper is for compatibility with older SATA
controllers that do not support full speed.

Mikkel
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