Hi,



I, running Vista Ultimate on a 3.40GHZ Pentium-4 PC with 2GB of RAM
All my drives are SATA, my primary "C" drive is a WD360 Raptor 10,000 rpm,
my second and third drive are Seagate Barracuda 7.200 RPM.

When accessing my secondary drives, Vista is slow. I have both Seagate
unjumped (300/s) and I wonder if this is the correct setting or should I
install
the jump to lower to 150/s?

BTW: I have the "index" option unchecked in all my drives, is this OK?

Thanks in advance
George

Assuming the SATA controllers on your motherboard are SATA II, you should
leave your drives without the jumper. Putting the jumper on will, if
anything, slow the drives down. On the other hand if your controllers are
the original SATA (150) type, putting the jumper on may help.

Having indexing turned off will make searches take longer but may make a
difference to drive speed.

Mike Bernstein

"George" <george1117@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uiekp6b5HHA.2380@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I, running Vista Ultimate on a 3.40GHZ Pentium-4 PC with 2GB of RAM
> All my drives are SATA, my primary "C" drive is a WD360 Raptor 10,000
> rpm,
> my second and third drive are Seagate Barracuda 7.200 RPM.
>
> When accessing my secondary drives, Vista is slow. I have both Seagate
> unjumped (300/s) and I wonder if this is the correct setting or should I
> install
> the jump to lower to 150/s?
>
> BTW: I have the "index" option unchecked in all my drives, is this OK?
>
> Thanks in advance
> George
>

Thanks Mike.

This is my mother board: http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/cv/

I didn't find the info there.

Regards
George



>"Mike Bernstein" <mkmike@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
>news:F7FCE5CF-0F31-4838-982B-74E3067AA19D@microsoft.com...
> Assuming the SATA controllers on your motherboard are SATA II, you should
> leave your drives without the jumper. Putting the jumper on will, if
> anything, slow the drives down. On the other hand if your controllers are
> the original SATA (150) type, putting the jumper on may help.
>
> Having indexing turned off will make searches take longer but may make a
> difference to drive speed.
>
> Mike Bernstein
>
> "George" <george1117@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uiekp6b5HHA.2380@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I, running Vista Ultimate on a 3.40GHZ Pentium-4 PC with 2GB of RAM
>> All my drives are SATA, my primary "C" drive is a WD360 Raptor 10,000
>> rpm,
>> my second and third drive are Seagate Barracuda 7.200 RPM.
>>
>> When accessing my secondary drives, Vista is slow. I have both Seagate
>> unjumped (300/s) and I wonder if this is the correct setting or should I
>> install
>> the jump to lower to 150/s?
>>
>> BTW: I have the "index" option unchecked in all my drives, is this OK?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> George
>>
>

"George" <george1117@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e9RS12n5HHA.4436@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Thanks Mike.
>
> This is my mother board: http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/cv/
>
> I didn't find the info there.
>
> Regards
> George
>
That is an obsolete motherboard. The technical specification is
dated November 2004. I am reasonably certain that SATA II
did not exist in 2004. Put the jumper on your drive to lock it
at 150.