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Hard Drives and SATA Cable Quality

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The cable won't make much of a speed difference. A bad quality cable generally shows up more as causing errors or even causing the drive to intermittently disappear rather than any sort of performance difference.

Here is an article we wrote a while back that you might be interest in looking at the speed difference between cables: http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/SATA-cables-I... It's geared more at the difference between SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 6Gb/s cables, but applies pretty well to your situation as well.

PS-Matt said:
The cable won't make much of a speed difference. A bad quality cable generally shows up more as causing errors or even causing the drive to intermittently disappear rather than any sort of performance difference.

Here is an article we wrote a while back that you might be interest in looking at the speed difference between cables: http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/SATA-cables-I... It's geared more at the difference between SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 6Gb/s cables, but applies pretty well to your situation as well.


Yeah looks like it makes no difference. I was just reading some reviews for certain cables and people were saying that it increased their WEI score when they simply updated the cable and I just wanted to see if there was any truth to that.
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