Samsung SpinPoint: Jumper to change transfer rate from 3 Gbps to 1.5 Gbps

Samsung SpinPoint SATA drives Jumper Setting: change transfer rate from 3 Gbps to 1.5 Gbps

Some computer motherboards with Serial ATA connections do not support SATA 3.0 Gbps performance. A jumper can be applied to Samsung SpinPoint Serial ATA drives that support 3.0 Gbps performance to slow the drive down to 1.5 Gbps so that these motherboards can support the drive.

Samsung SpinPoint,Jumper,transfer rate

Note: This jumper should be used only when the motherboard can not compensate for the drive’s faster performance.

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RAID Array & Server Glossary of Computer Terms (Letter T)

Terminator
A part used to end a SCSI bus.

Termination
A method of matching transmission impedance of a bus to eliminate signal reflections from the physical ends of the bus.

Throughput
The number of I/O requests satisfied per unit of time (usually per second).

TPC-C, Tpm-C

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a standards organization that measures transaction throughput of systems. One of their benchmarks is Tpm-C, which reflects price and performance metrics. TPC-C reflects new order transaction rate, a benchmark for transaction speed. Mylex products have won consistently high TPC-C results.

Transfer Rate
The rate at which data moves between the host computer and storage, input, or output devices, usually expressed as a number of characters per second.

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