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Title: Loose sata cables?
Post by: captain_obvious 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?

Title: Re: Loose sata cables?
Post by: Nebula on August 24, 2011, 11:31:07 AM

get sata cables with clips on the ends...

Title: Re: Loose sata cables?
Post by: captain_obvious 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!

Title: Re: Loose sata cables?
Post by: CyAn1d3 on August 24, 2011, 11:58:59 PM

stop abusing your hardware  :dontcare:  :P

Title: Re: Loose sata cables?
Post by: captain_obvious 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.