Hard Drives & SSDs: SATA Jumper Settings

Created on: April 30, 2013
Last updated: August 24, 2015

While modern SATA drives no longer ship with jumper pins, some of the older models do have jumper pins on the back. However, SATA drives do not require any jumpers to be set manually set.  The system will auto-assign an appropriate ID to the drive once it is installed.