SATA Cables Tested and Benchmarked

Forum Storage : SSD SATA Cables Tested and Benchmarked

RunCore

And now for something completely different! :wahoo:

Tangled & Twisted: SATA Cables Benchmarked:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/f [...] vestigates

Message quoted 1 times

Reply to JohnnyLucky

Very informative. Thanks!

In January I swapped 6 of my 10" SATA II cables for SATA III. Seems like I didn't need to.
Good thing I only paid $1.67 per cable.

Message edited by Dereck47 on 11-16-2011 at 11:47:51 PM

Reply to Dereck47

Yup! No need to get the most expensive cables. However, the article correctly points out that sometimes there may be an issue with quality control.

BTW - If anyone is looking for short SATA cables here is a source four 4 inch and 8 inch cables:

http://www.satacables.com/html/sat [...] strai.html

Comes in handy in situations where a drive is close to the motherboard SATA ports.

Message quoted 1 times

Reply to JohnnyLucky

Thanks Johnny-
I've been telling people for some time now that there is no difference in SATA cables, but of course no one wants to believe that. Wizard's First Rule or something like that.

Anyway its nice to have some evidence to point to, albeit not very scientific evidence. Thanks for this.

------------------------------

http://valid.canardpc.com/cache/banner/2331227.png

Reply to buzznut

I am someone who could actually use more than 20 4 inch cables!

------------------------------

Reply to buzznut

JohnnyLucky wrote :

Newegg has SATA's in the 6" range as well.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] agesize=50

Reply to wayneepalmer

Nice list - also includes 8 inch and 10 inch cables.

Reply to JohnnyLucky

JohnnyLucky wrote :

And now for something completely different! :wahoo:

Tangled & Twisted: SATA Cables Benchmarked:

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/f [...] vestigates

Very cool, first kind I've read on the subject.

Thanx

Reply to Nikorr

hardly scientific in nature when only a few test subjects are used. Try testing a box or two of those cheaper cables and compare them to better quality versions to see which one has more lemons or causes the greatest number of sata speed downclocks/disconnects.

I've done some of that same testing by being forced to figure out where issues are. Cables can make a larger difference the faster the drives get and I for one would never put a cheap $1.25 cable on my thousands worth of SSD's. May as well wire up your 1500 watt surround sound setup with radioshack's cheap stuff.

Premium cabling is just cheap insurance in the long run.

Also found it odd that they tested that drive with incompressible data(AS SSD/CDM3?) as that won't task the sata channel nearly as hard on the write side of the equation.

Reply to groberts101

groberts101 - The test laboratory at CNET did. Price made no difference. It's the quality, not the price that counts.

I'll see if I can find the test report and post a link.

Message edited by JohnnyLucky on 11-28-2011 at 07:56:21 AM

Reply to JohnnyLucky

not a big deal Johnny. I see too many flaws to take much salt away anyhow. Thanks though.

Reply to groberts101

Hi,

I found the article very enlightening. I've a follow up question. Does the article apply to HD Mobile Racks as well, I assume? Meaning if I have an old HD SATA I caddy, that's been working well for many years, I should be able to drop in a new SATA III HD and experience the expected performance gain?

Thanks,
Erasmo.

Reply to erasmix

SATA cables labelled and advertised as SATA, SATA 2, and SATA 3 are identical according to the International standard.

Does the computer have SATA 3 6Gb/s capability? If it does, then you will experience SATA 3 6Gb/s performance. If not, then you will not experience SATA 3 6Gb/s performance. Instead you will experience ssd performance at the same level as the computer's SATA capability.

Message edited by JohnnyLucky on 12-27-2011 at 04:51:56 PM

Reply to JohnnyLucky