I've never had a bad Sata cable and how would you know a good one in terms of brand?
I bought some round Sata cable made by nzxt. Sent from my iPad 2 On Dec 10, 2011, at 2:27 AM, Gary Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>
