Hello darlings...
My thoughts upon opening the package were mainly fantasies of a 1.5 TB setup that I would attempt to fill with all kinds of useful stuff. Not sure what, but I was sure it would be useful. The hard drives were nothing spectacular to look at and I honestly didn't expect them to be. Aesthetically pleasing hard drives, such as the WD Raptor X, forfiet their visual superiority in most computers because the 3.5" bays in most cases have little to no visibility. Needless to say, I was satisfied with its standard shiny topped goodness.

The Ancients

Two installed.

The label provided all the information we covered on the previous page. However, it also detailed the location and function of the jumper switch. When they arrived, there was a jumper on the two outer-most pins of the four pins on the back of the drive. This jumper would force the hard drive to function in SATA I mode at 1.5 GB/s. Removing this jumper unleashed the full power of the SATA II drives at a blazing 3.0GB/s. Keep in mind that your motherboard's SATA controller must be able to support SATA II. You can see the jumper's location in the picture below.

The plugs.

Installation was simple. They were plugged in and immediately recognized by the BIOS and reporting in at 750GBs each. Upon a fresh windows boot, they each reported to be 698 GBs. I was amazed at the 52 GB loss considering that's 5x the capacity of some of the older hard drives I own. However, I wasn't about to complain that I only had 700 GB per drive. In addition, this falls right into line with your typical loss on smaller capacity hard drives.