sata hard drive 1.5G jumper

External Since: Dec 27, 2007 Posts: 1

Hello. I've got a serial ATA hard drive with a jumper to lower the data
transfer rate from 3.0Gbit/s to 1.5. I don't know what speed the motherboard
is on the computer. If I leave it set to the higher speed and the board can
only cope with 1.5Gbit/s will it still work only at the lower speed or could
it cause any damage/instability?
Thanks.

External Since: Dec 06, 2007 Posts: 13

"Jim" <her887ho89tk7r88i4.RemoveThis@notmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello. I've got a serial ATA hard drive with a jumper to lower the data
> transfer rate from 3.0Gbit/s to 1.5. I don't know what speed the
> motherboard is on the computer. If I leave it set to the higher speed and
> the board can only cope with 1.5Gbit/s will it still work only at the
> lower speed or could it cause any damage/instability?
> Thanks.
>

yes and no.