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    What’s the jumper “enable 1.5GB PHY” on a Western Digital hard disk?

    Oct 18, 2021

    Question: I’ve got a new hard disk. On the label there is a description of the jumper settings:

    PHY jumper

    One of them is:

    ?

    Jumpered pins 5 and 6 enables 1.5GB PHY

    What does PHY stand for?

    Answer: It’s SATA II disk, right?

    And if you put jumper on these pins HDDs will be SATA I.

    It’s there for if your motherboard doesn’t support SATA II.

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