I have recently seen failures on SATA cables myself. I have been writing it off as being cables of an unknown age. Interesting that others have seen it, but I believe it is likely coincidence.
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Winterlight <[email protected]>wrote: > I have one ESATA device. It is a 2TB Fantom external hard drive that > supports both USB2, and ESATA. It has an Hitachi drive in an aluminium > enclosure that vents at both ends. I put a case fan in front of it that > blows air through it, and in the three years I have run it 24/7 it has > never given me any problem. But the ESATA cables don't seem to last. I have > had two cable failures and I am just about to order my third ESATA cable > from Monoprice. It is odd.. the cable just stops working and windows > doesn't see the drive. Fortunately, I can plug in the USB 2 cable to verify > the drive is OK, and continue to use it until I replace the ESATA cable. > The ESATA cable is only 3 feet long and sits in a fixed location. Nothing > is ever moved around so it just surprises me that the cable keeps failing. > Any body else experience this? > > Merlin >
