SATA Cables Suck!

Jonathan Horne freebsd at dfwlp.com
Wed Aug 2 01:05:27 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 01 August 2006 19:23, Nikolas Britton wrote:
> The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has been the cables! 4
> times I've lost arrays because the cables came loose or some other
> stupid problem with the cables.
>
> I need a vendor that has high quality latching SATA-II cables. Also...
> what can we do with the old cables to fix them... super glue them
> on?... Here's a question... Are all SATA cables rated for SATA-II?
> I've never seen a definitive answer to this question and newegg.com
> does not sells "SATA-II" cables... Also does the spec call for
> shielded cables?
>
> frustrated, need a place to unload.... thanks.

when i built my computer 2 years ago, i went for sata drives for the first 
time.  my intial impression was "wow... is that actually going to stay 
connected?"

jonathan


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