Little jumper in my Seagate HD? Should I take it out?

[audiobahn1000]

I have the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 GB. 16mb 7200 RPM HD. On it there is a jumper and on the sticker on the HD it says when the jumper in it it runs at 1.5 gb/sec and when its out it runs at 3.0gb/sec. What is that jumper for and should it take it out so it runs faster?

 

[Motoxrdude]

Well it depends, does your motherboard support 3gb/s?

 

[The_Other_One]

I'd suspect the board supports SATA3.0. But in all honesty, I doubt you'd notice a huge, if any difference.

 

[Motoxrdude]

Or any, hard drives can't even read at 1.5gb/s

 

[audiobahn1000]

I have the Gigabyte 965P-DS3 mobo.

 

[StrangleHold]

965P-DS3
6 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products...rboard&ProductID=2314&ProductName=GA-965P-DS3

 

[audiobahn1000]

So then obvousaly I should remove the jumper. Why is that jumper there anyway? Why would you want your HD to run slower then it can run at? Do some 3.0gb/sec HD's not work if they are hooked up to a mobo that only supports 1.5gb.sec or something?