On 2/20/24 04:29, David Christensen wrote:
On 2/19/24 18:07, Felix Miata wrote:
My experience with that particular color cables matches Gene's. Cut
one open, and
out comes a powdery substance instead of clean copper strands. I think
most for
gen 1.0 SATA 2 decades ago, so there shouldn't be many still around
bogging down
3.0 drives.
About 10 (?) years ago, I seem to recall trouble-shooting a SATA
connection problem and coming to the conclusion that the (red) SATA
cable was the problem. I cannot recall if I had heard Gene's story at
the time. I believe I decided to cut off one end, taking a 50% chance
of getting something I could use as a break-out/ pig tail. To my
surprise, there was no copper within the cable, just brownish dust!
Unfortunately, I did not photograph the cable and it is long gone.
4 or more years ago, I was plagued with SATA III connection issues;
likely due to old SATA I and SATA II cables and mobile racks. I bought
a bunch of black SATA cables marked "6 Gbps" with locking connectors and
got rid of all of my existing cables (most of which were red). I later
retired all of my SATA I and SATA II mobile racks, moved most of my
drives internal, and bought a few SATA III mobile racks for off-site
backup drives. My SATA connection problems are finally resolved.
How many more nearly identical story's can be teased out of this group
of old hands at this game of making moving electrons do useful things?
David
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Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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