Seagate 7200.11 Jumpers

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MooMooCow

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Seriously, how the hell do you pull these things out? I've tried needles and a pair of thin pair of tweezers but to avail. I thought the 7200.10 jumpers were bad, but christ.....:mad:
 
MooMooCow said:
Seriously, how the hell do you pull these things out? I've tried needles and a pair of thin pair of tweezers but to avail. I thought the 7200.10 jumpers were bad, but christ.....:mad:
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Yea pain in the ass...!

Good thing the 7200.11 1.5 TB drives dont come with em :D
 
I have a dental pick in my computer tool case for random hard to access crap like this, works great :)
 
yeah, the jumpers on those drives are fun. I use those little eyeglass care kit screwdrivers to pull them out.
 
MooMooCow said:
Seriously, how the hell do you pull these things out? I've tried needles and a pair of thin pair of tweezers but to avail. I thought the 7200.10 jumpers were bad, but christ.....:mad:
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Just bang the end of the drive where the jumper is against something hard like a table top or the concrete out in your driveway. Eventually the jumper will work it's way down the pins to where you can snag it. Sometimes you must smack it pretty hard, but don't worry since modern hard drives can take 350 G's of shock while not operating.

Don
 
thebeephaha said:
I use a knife, a big 4 inch blade.

I'm not kidding.
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ditto on the knife thing. ive used very small slot screwdrivers as well, but i find the knife works better.

the better question for this thread would be.... WTF do they even bother with the jumpers. you should have to put them on if you want to slow down your drive.
 
^^ Agreed. Who voluntarily wants to slow their drive down? It's beyond stupidity. The non-standard jumper size is just icing on the cake.
 
DonDon said:
Just bang the end of the drive where the jumper is against something hard like a table top or the concrete out in your driveway. Eventually the jumper will work it's way down the pins to where you can snag it. Sometimes you must smack it pretty hard, but don't worry since modern hard drives can take 350 G's of shock while not operating.

Don
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Considering a simple 1m fall would cause around a 375-400G shock, slamming it on the table or driveway would probably be closer to 1000G's. Plus the scuff marks or cracked PCB would void the warranty.
 
Mav451 said:
^^ Agreed. Who voluntarily wants to slow their drive down? It's beyond stupidity. The non-standard jumper size is just icing on the cake.
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It's the same as a jumper on a Laptop IDE drive...

And it's actually a good plan, not all computers support SATA2... Seagate drives are interchangable and can work on older motherboards that only support SATA1...

Don't think you're actually speeding anything up by going from SATA1 to SATA2 on a consumer drive, they don't come close to using up that bandwidth anyways...

When you get a drive that can do 187MB/s in read/writes then I'd consider worrying about that jumper :rolleyes:
 
Blazestorm said:
It's the same as a jumper on a Laptop IDE drive...

And it's actually a good plan, not all computers support SATA2... Seagate drives are interchangable and can work on older motherboards that only support SATA1...

Don't think you're actually speeding anything up by going from SATA1 to SATA2 on a consumer drive, they don't come close to using up that bandwidth anyways...

When you get a drive that can do 187MB/s in read/writes then I'd consider worrying about that jumper :rolleyes:
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The fastest drives are just now beginning to saturate the SATA I bus. The SATA I bus is able to deliver 150 MB/sec. More like 120 MB/sec in real life.

I recently purchased a 500 gig 7200.11 drive. When I first got it, with the SATA I jumper installed, I got about 80 MB/sec average with HDTach. My burst speed was 115 MB/sec. After I removed the SATA I jumper, my average transfer stayed the same, and the Burst speed was 180 MB/sec. My real life difference was zero, but in theory, SATA I could be slowing me down a bit.

Don
 
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