SATA Cables Suck!

[Nikolas Britton]

On 8/1/06, Jonathan Horne <freebsd at dfwlp.com> wrote:
> 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?"
>

Now that I've rationally thought about it, it's possible the backplane
is flaky... I still think the cable connectors are to loose. Maybe
I've been jaded by a bad batch of cables and a flaky backplane.



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