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Question posted by xfiles80 on June 7th, 2011

What Jumper Settings To Use It As An External Hard Drive?

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Answer #1: Posted by eugeneua on June 15th, 2011 7:42 AM
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This hard drive need no special jumper setting to use it as external. This is SATA drive and most often such drives use no jumper. For such use you need adapter or enclosure, or dock to connect to usb or esata, or firewire port of your computer.

Answer #2: Posted by LTGmama2010 on June 7th, 2011 12:28 PM
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Compatibility - Page 1

For technical support, visit support.wdc.com . WD Compatibility Summary WD Drive Models: WD6400AAKS, WD5000ABYS, WD5000AAKS, WD4000ABYS, WD4000AAKS, WD3200ABYS, WD3200AAKS, WD2500ABYS, WD2500AAKS, WD1600ABYS, WD1600AAKS The chipsets, host adapters, and RAID controllers listed below have been tested with WD drives for data integrity, interoperability, and compatibility, and any special conditions ...
Compatibility - Page 2

...2003 ABIT VT7 VT8251 southbridge Motherboard Chipset SATA 3 Gb/s 12/6/2005 ASUS A8V-MX VER 1.0 ** BIOS date listed if available from Manufacturer *** This chipset can be applied to an add-in the comments section of these products. WD Compatibility Summary WD Drive Models: WD6400AAKS, WD5000ABYS, WD5000AAKS, WD4000ABYS, WD4000AAKS, WD3200ABYS, WD3200AAKS, WD2500ABYS, WD2500AAKS, WD1600ABYS...
Product Specifications - Page 1

... offer drives ranging from 8 MB to 32 MB, WD Caviar Blue drives offer a full range of quality and reliability. INTERFACES SATA 3 Gb/s and PATA MODEL NUMBERS WD10EALS WD6400AAKS WD5000AAKS WD5000AAKB .... WD Caviar® Blue™ Desktop Hard Drives With SATA and PATA interfaces, and cache sizes ranging from 80 GB to 1 TB. Product Features Cache WD Caviar Blue is used throughout this...
Product Specifications - Page 2

WD Caviar Blue Specifications1 Model number Interface Formatted capacity User sectors per drive LBA support SATA latching connector Actuator latch/auto park Form factor RoHS compliant2 Performance Data transfer rate (max) Buffer to host Host to/from drive (sustained) ..../mm, ± .01 in.) Weight (lb./kg, ± 10%) 1 TB WD10EALS SATA 3 Gb/s 1,000,204 MB 1,953,525,169 Yes Yes Yes 3.5-inch Yes...
Product Specifications - Page 3

...Caviar Blue Specifications1 Model number Interface Formatted capacity User sectors per drive LBA support SATA latching connector Actuator latch/auto park Form factor RoHS compliant2 Performance Data transfer rate (max) Buffer to host Host to/from drive...kg, ± 10%) 250 GB WD2500AAKS WD2500AAJS SATA 3 Gb/s 250,059 MB 488,397,168 Yes Yes Yes 3.5-inch Yes 250 GB WD2500AAJB PATA 100 MB/s 250,059...

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