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SATA drives.. Enabling better performance??
I was looking at one of my 320gb SATA interna 3.5 inch drives from Seagate today, and noticed some nice little jumper pins around the back of it. Curious, it says that if they are pinned, it will limit the SATA drive to 1.5 gbps, and if not pinned, will allow 3gbps. Currently, they are pinned. I am wondering if there is a good reason for this.
Additionally, I downloaded a program from yamicsoft, called windows 7 manager, which has a free 15 day trial. In it, it there is an option to "Enable SATA disk advanced function to improve performance." if you hover over it, it says.. "This tweak will enable advanced function of your sata hard disks, and increase disk performance to decrease read/write of SATA hard disk, but it also increases chance of data loss.."
Given the last part of that sentence, I held off, but I am wondering if anyone around here can weigh in on it..
Thanks in advance for your response..