ATX HDD female gold plated pins, Molex codes and other info

Lo, people, I'm starting this thread because on the web you cant find enough information's about this topic, that I will talk about.

I want to make some case moding which will include swapping of Atx, Hdd power , Aux and the pins inside connectors. I have 7 power supplies in my LAB that I'm interested to mod, especially on 4 enermax supply's which are worst on this matter, all pins are wasted after only 2 and a half year.

As we all knows Atx connector housing is called Molex 39-01-2200, but you cant find any info about PINS inside.
Pins are called by the Molex standard Mini-fit Jr. 118" (3.0mm) in our case we will use AWG from 18-24. female pins.

Best pins you can find on the market are from the Molex directly, like this :
http://www.molex.com/product/power/5556.html

Brass (Pre- plated Gold over Nickel) awg 18-24/ 39-00-0055/ 39-00-0056
Brass (Post- plated Gold over Nickel) awg 18-24/ 39-00-0163/ 39-00-0164
Phosphor Bronze (Pre-plated Gold over Nickel) awg 18-24/ 39-00-0153/ 39-00-0154
Phosphor Bronze (Post-plated Gold over Nickel) awg 18-24 / 39-00-0181/ 39-00-0182

Expect life time is from 3-5 years if the pins are clear and without graphite corrosion (who lives in the big city knows about this very good what is graphite corrosion).

You can find Many manufactures and branders like: Molex, AMP(which was bought by tycoelectronics), AC Ryan Conetix(which is only branded Chinese goods) and you can find many Chinese stuff but without some standardized codes and without good quality.

You cant imagine how much problems are made by the slackly or bad contacts on the ATX connectors.


Next is HDD power Molex connector which is Molex 8981-04M/P, female pins inside are Molex 8980P, 5.08mm (.200" ) Pitch Disk Drive Power Connection System, Female Crimp Terminal, Molex doesn't produce better quality HDD pins, here are the models from the Molex:

02-08-1201 Disk Drive Power Connection System, Female Crimp Terminal, Reel, Phosphor Bronze, AWG 14 - 20
02-08-1202 Disk Drive Power Connection System, Female Crimp Terminal, Bag, Phosphor Bronze, 14 - 20 AWG
02-08-1215 Disk Drive Power Connection System, Female Crimp Terminal, Reel, Brass, AWG 14 - 20
02-08-1216 Disk Driver Power Connection System, Female Crimp Terminal, Bag, Brass, AWG 14 -20

You can see they have Phosphor Bronze, but without post or pre gold plating, in this case you can forget Molex connectors and go to some other solutions like Ac Ryan Gold plated HDD female pins, or some other Chinese Gold plated pins, but you cant find any info about time and force durability and the right materials used in pins production line, as you can find on the reputable manufacture like Molex or AMP.

I want to know about other users experiences about this subject, what did you used, where did you bought it, where is the best price with the lowest shipping price and ....