sata port and cable, any plugging limit???

brannsiu · Nov 9, 2016

I forget what I saw, it's said that a SATA port has a short life, you shouldn't insert it and take out the cable too many times or the SATA port on the hard drives will get damaged.

Is that real?

I have more HDDs installed on my chassis than the power cable and SATA port I have, as a result I have to often take out the SATA and power cable . Yes, I know about external enclosure but my office is really too small (I'm NOT in big countries like USA)

jsmithepa · Nov 9, 2016

That's correct, they are not designed to be repeatedly connect/disconnected like a removable. You take your chances. And before you ask, nobody can tell you, oh, it's good for 500 plug/unplug and it will die on the 501 disconnect.

Someone Somewhere · Nov 22, 2016

I believe the spec states 50 plug/unplug cycles. That's a minimum, so it may be higher - but not necessarily too much higher.

If they're all in your case but not hooked up, have you considered getting some SATA power splitters and a PCIe SATA card?

Or use fewer, larger HDDs.

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