I know unlikely but you can never gaurentee a good cable so buying a recommended one proven for quality would be the best option. Changing the cables is a cheap thing to do and not very impactive on downtime for the PC so at least I need to rule them out. As I don't have any spares I may as well buy good ones to swap out.
I actually believe it is the intel P67 controller on the motherboard but I don't have a spare to test with and would rather change the cables just to be safe. In the meantime I switched the main drives to the Marvel 9182 controller but that only has two ports so I cannot connect everything to it. So we will see if the machine can stay up overnight. If it can it suggests to me the Intel controller. On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Anthony Q. Martin <[email protected]>wrote: > Why not just use ANY Sata cable other than the ones you have? You're > barking up the wrong tree. > > Sent from my iPad 2 > > On Dec 10, 2011, at 1:04 AM, Gary Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am having intermittent lock-ups on my machine and it seems to be when > it > > is doing some disk i/o. I have updated all drivers and am running nothing > > but essential services and it still occurs so want to ensure it is not > any > > of the SATA cables before exploring other controller errors. So I want to > > first replace the cables with something very good quality and reliable. > > Any recommendations on top quality SATA cables capable of 6Gb/s > preferably > > with the locking mechanism. There are so many options out there I don't > > know where to start and I don't just want to buy the most expensive as > cost > > can't be relied on to determine quality :-) > > > > Many thanks, > > > > Gary >
