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Cable bottleneck SSD performance?

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April 5, 2013 6:17:45 AM

Yesterday I installed my new Samsung 840 Pro SSD into my machine. I used an ordinary SATA cable to connect it to SATA3 port on my mobo.
Could this introduce a bottleneck to SSD speed?
Should I use cables that have "6 Gb/s" written on them instead?

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a c 162 G Storage
April 5, 2013 6:22:20 AM

You can run some benchmarks to see what you get, but I have used "SATA" cables from past builds without issues.

I guess if a cable was real bad it may have some issues, but I have not run across any...
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a b G Storage
April 5, 2013 6:37:25 AM

All SATA cables (undamaged) should be fine for 6gb.
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a b G Storage
April 5, 2013 8:35:14 AM

Only ever had this happen on older cheap SATA-1 cables that couldn't handle the data rate.
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a c 313 G Storage
April 5, 2013 6:18:29 PM

There is no such thing as SATA 2, or SATA 3 cables. Currently there is only one international standard for SATA cables. The cables supplied with motherboards will work with either SATA 2 or SATA 3 ssd's. If you see a cable advertised as being a SATA 3 cable consider it as an advertising gimmick.
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