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    HD installation for ASUS G1S

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by ktang, Jun 2, 2009.

  1. ktang

    ktang Notebook Consultant

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    I just bought a Seagate Momentus 500 GB version 7200.4, and I was wondering if I needed a jumper for it or could the drive run at 3 GB/s?
     
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  2. ClearSkies

    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    SATA drives don't tend to have jumpers - my understanding is the motherboard interface is involved in whether the drive will run at SATA I or II speeds....

    In the end it doesn't add up to much, as even the fastest current spindle drives can't come close to saturating even the 1.5GB/s bandwidth - so even if the drive does interface at 3.0 the max read speed isn't going to go up and is still going to stay below 125Mb/sec.

    Some of the brand new SLC-type SSD's are starting to come close to breaching the SATA1 threshold.
     
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  3. ktang

    ktang Notebook Consultant

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    So if the current drive in my G1S has one of the jumper connectors in the two pins, should I put that into the momentus drive i just bought?
     
    ktang, Jun 2, 2009
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