New Seagates from factory with the jumper limiting at 1.5 Gb/s ?

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Iplayloud

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I just bought a Barracuda 7200.10 320GB and on the label there's a sticker explaining that you can set a jumper to limit the operation to 1.5 Gb/s rather than 3.0 Gb/s and the jumper is preset that way. Why would they slow down their HD's, to keep them colder and more reliable ? Should I remove the jumper and let it rip at 3 Gb/s ?
 
Its mainly for motherboards (like mine) that only support the original SATA. If your mobo has SATAII, then use 3GBPS.
 
I thought it was backwards compatible, but on the other hand, that also makes sense..
 
they are backwards compatible but some mobos wont recognize the hdd if it is set to run at 300gb if the mobo only supports 150gb so sata drives have a jumper to change 150 and 300 thus making it backwards compatible
 
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