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Post Date: 2011-11-26
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    Posted: 26 Nov 2011 at 9:18pm
As the title suggests I have a question about jumper settings for secondary HDDs. For my secondary drive, a 500GB WD Caviar Black, I discarded the jumper for it because for some reason it caused issues with the drive. Everything took for ever to access with the default jumper and an AV scan took all day. I had read some where that it could be the jumper so I removed it and that solved the issue.

What I need to know was that actually ok to do? I want to make sure I do everything right with my new system that is coming in a week or two and I need to know if I am going to need a jumper on my secondary HDD. My knowledge on it is limited but from what I know it's important to set it to be a "slave" drive or something.

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not sure what drive you have but jumper for hdd2 should just be on "cable", not slave.

either way unless your hdd has a jumper for sata 1 and 2, I don't see why speed was different, so I assume your jumper was on sata 1.

Now indays you don't have to mess with the jumper unless its for sata and its on sata 1, which most times they are not.

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Ah ok. Yeah the jumper reduced it's speed to SATA 1 and that's what I was told was causing the issue. I didn't think I needed it but I am just being paranoid and want everything to be done right with my new rig.

I have read some things lately and I've seen other hot-to-guides talking about jumper and slave settings for secondary drives but it was most likely just old info that no longer applies.

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You can do slave but I like my drives independent.

look at the maker of your hdd, find its manual and set its jumper on sata 2.

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Just checked WD site, for a SATA 3.0GB/s drive, like I have, default is no jumper. Don't know why I did not check that first. The only other two setting are either 1.5GB/s for SATA 1 or for SSC enabled (which I don't think applies to me)

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