Do the new SATA hard drives have slave and master settings?

-No. The boot order for SATA drives is set from the BIOS.



SATA drives do have some jumper settings but these rarely need to be changed from the default



SSC - Spread Spectrum Clocking is a way to lower electromagnetic interference (EMI) or electronic noise. Mainly used to pass FCC emssions standards in multi-drive computers.



PUIS - Power-up in standby - prevents the drive from automatic spinup when power is applied, drive gets to full speed only when used. It's a power conservancy measure. Your motherboard has to support this else the drive might not start properly at all.



1.5Gb PHY - forces a drive into 1.5Gbps transfer mode rather than 3.0Gbps mode. The PHY stands for physical layer, a reference to layer 1 of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model.No. The boot order for SATA drives is set from the BIOS.



SATA drives do have some jumper settings but these rarely need to be changed from the default



SSC - Spread Spectrum Clocking is a way to lower electromagnetic interference (EMI) or electronic noise. Mainly used to pass FCC emssions standards in multi-drive computers.



PUIS - Power-up in standby - prevents the drive from automatic spinup when power is applied, drive gets to full speed only when used. It's a power conservancy measure. Your motherboard has to support this else the drive might not start properly at all.



1.5Gb PHY - forces a drive into 1.5Gbps transfer mode rather than 3.0Gbps mode. The PHY stands for physical layer, a reference to layer 1 of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model.No, but some motherboards have slave and master plugs