Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 20:35:03 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Jonathan Horne" <freebsd@dfwlp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA Cables Suck! Message-ID: <ef10de9a0608011835i1c83cb4asf8b8824486291eb1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200608012005.23994.freebsd@dfwlp.com> References: <ef10de9a0608011723y770687f7me0b4cacd176fe4d1@mail.gmail.com> <200608012005.23994.freebsd@dfwlp.com>
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On 8/1/06, Jonathan Horne <freebsd@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. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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