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Re: red SATA cables "notoriously bad"?

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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
> 
> .

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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