Sata Drive jumper with USB external case?
Being new to Sata and external drives not sure if I need the jumper or not. I bought an External USB case for a Sata drive, should I leave the limit jumper on the drive for slower Sata or take it off for faster Sata. Nice large printed manual came with the external case, even explains in detail for newbies why large drives are smaller than rated, the 1000MB - 1gig and 1024Mb=gig, windows limits for large drives, all kinds of things but I did not see anything about Sata jumpers mentioned.

You'll never get SATA II speeds on a USB enclosure so it really doesn't matter, although some enclosures do have issues with SATA II. To play safe I'd jumper it for SATA I.

Unless the enclosure is actually rated to be able to support it I wouldn't have it running in SATA II mode. Besides, you aren't going to see a benefit anyways due to the transfer speeds.

Thanks. This sata stuff is all new to me. Got my 300gig sata RMA drive yesterday, not sure I even have it working now. Been lots of problems and not even in the external case yet I asked about. Some times it works, sometimes it seems to lock up my system. I looked and it has no jumper installed, neither does the one it replaced that worked fine till it died. Also I been having trouble with my 250GIG seagate brand new! I think I will post more to hard drive hell tomorrow, unless things straighten out tonight.