From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 2 01:24:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 923FB16A4DD for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 01:24:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA67043D49 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 01:24:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n29so466288nfc for ; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:24:04 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WwxN8slRJ2TlKXOrR1Se3JAJi6npIfBH+Cgw/J+TlsjrII5xprO0kS1gnJ+B95bNztSe1n22fh6CfJNb8RySAy89dcKb8NH8I9HBt0eUnA/SiwJ+a9iO/kp0oAXuXLsN53RGcEF5Klsony/SpeO8+dfcj0nQ5IOIC/D67DIIJGw= Received: by 10.78.123.4 with SMTP id v4mr103782huc; Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:24:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.143.11 with HTTP; Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:24:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 20:24:03 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: jdow In-Reply-To: <034901c6b5ce$f05a2d90$0225a8c0@Wednesday> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <034901c6b5ce$f05a2d90$0225a8c0@Wednesday> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA Cables Suck! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:24:06 -0000 On 8/1/06, jdow wrote: > From: "Nikolas Britton" > > > 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. > > First google hit "SATA-II cable specification": > http://www.satacable.com/ > > Second google site hit > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2076134&CatId=84 > > I've done business with Tiger Direct. They were prompt for delivery. > Searching for things on their site was annoying, though. > > Adding "site:newegg" to the search gives: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812207001 > and > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812162003 > > First has a right angle connector. > > You were saying? > {^_^} > Already looked at the Silverstone cables a few days ago, too many bad reviews about the cables snapping in two. Do you have any of these Silverstone cables... can you comment on the quality? thanks. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/