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Offline captain_obvious

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Loose sata cables?
« on: August 24, 2011, 10:16:55 AM »
Is anyone having problems with their SATA data cables coming loose all the time? Mine seem to be coming very slightly loose, just enough for a connection but not enough for any decent performance from my disks!

I have a new-ish disk (one of those spinpoint F3 1 TB jobbies) and it *should* be getting around a 100MB/s transfer rate.  Mine is currently at a max of 42, with an average of just 2.8!
I've had this problem a few times.  Every time I've pulled the cables and reconnected them thereby fixing the problem but it keeps happening again and again.  Every few months I will be just about to hit "save" and pow! My pc has a fit and dies with a stop error.  Annoying!

Any advice?
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Re: Loose sata cables?
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2011, 11:31:07 AM »
get sata cables with clips on the ends...
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Re: Loose sata cables?
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2011, 12:08:06 PM »
Quote from: Nebula on August 24, 2011, 11:31:07 AM
get sata cables with clips on the ends...

Done and....ermm done?

Thanks!
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Re: Loose sata cables?
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2011, 11:58:59 PM »
stop abusing your hardware  :dontcare:  :P
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Re: Loose sata cables?
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2011, 11:37:06 AM »
It's not something I've ever come across before.  I had always assumed my motherboard was on the fritz or something and changed which sata ports they were plugged into!

Meh.
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