I have estata cables on my tivo extender that have been working fine for
years. I have estate cables on one of my PCs that hold extra drives,
like some 8 extra drives. They seem to be working fine too.
On 8/26/2013 1:38 AM, Christopher Fisk wrote:
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
