All the facts needed in under 3 minutes. No nonsense, no prattle, no music. This is how to make a good youtube video. Main takeaways: (a) the cable spec has not changed since SATA 1, all cables support SATA 3 with 6Gbps (b) connectors with lock/latch is an improvement (c) angled connectors come in left/right (or up/down) varieties (d) Wire gauges 26 to 28 are common, lower is thicker and better wires.
dude i have over 30 sata data cables and wasnt sure if they had speed bottlenecks and you just taught me that left and right angle ends and better wirer management i use two duel hot swap bays for HDD Repairs and Backups and you just helped me out big time i got faster speeds shorter wires and looks much better SUBBED and LIKED keep up with the tips my bro. VIDEO IDEA: now in days i keep having to fix HDD and sometimes SSD and the main problem for pc Slow down is Disk Fragments and alot of people dont know to defrag and optimize there drives i have a drive that can write at 150GB/s Plus and same one that use to do those speeds the different is one is defrag and i only backup and copy from this drive and only run it for a shortest time possible SO the Video Idea is PROPER PC CLEANING AND MAINTAINING would be a great idea from dust and checking parts to software cleaning and proper wire management
I had 6 SSDs connected to an icydock express cage (5.25" drive bay insert that contains 6x 2.5" drives) annnd 3 years later, I had one drive show up as unknown filesystem, followed by another just not being detected any longer. Not connected using RAID, all connected to the same sata controller on the motherboard, all with locking ends, firmly connected. However... 3 of the 6 SATA cables were totally thinner cables! 3 of them were 26AWG, while the other 3, not labelled at all, were super flexible, thinner variants. 2 of the 3 drives that died were using the thinner gauge SATA cables! I cant be positive if these deaths were caused by the icydock enclosure, or ther cables, but I sure as hell will be replacing the last remaining cable ASAP now that I know! I also opted for connecting directly to the mobo and not using the icydock anymore, but yeah. I learned stuff from this video, thanks!
amazing... i have very very old sata cables and came here cuz I was also suspicious they are all the same thing since there are not electronics on them... the thickness and locking def something to consider if willing to upgrade... making a truenas scale server out of old drives and need to buy like 10 extra satas so I was wondering if it was worth going for the more expensive ones, but I guess they are all the "same "
Thanks, I had some cables that just say "SATA" and this is the first source I found that makes clear that the cable doesn't matter. Every other source I found just goes into the three SATA types but never talks about if the cables changed.
It's interesting to note, that the officially supported maximum length of a SATA cable is 1 meter, or 3.3 feet. However I know of two different times when people have used 2M length SATA cables to hold the SSD of a security system inside a safe while still recording to it.
As long as you run 26 gauge Sata cables you will be ok. It's the Sata port they're connected too that will distinguish the transfer rates. And try not to use a longer cable than necessary. At least that's what I have found building comps.
Great question! The setup of cat5, cat5e, and cat6 is indeed similar and allows them to be backwards compatible. However the gauge of the internal wires, thickness of sheathing, frequency of internal twisting, and additions of center cores in the cables allow for cat5e to reach higher speeds than cat5 without interference, and cat6 to reach even higher than that. 👍
Interesting question! I went and took a look at all the SATA cables we have here and none of them have M2 labeled on them. Perhaps some kind of ribbon cable for an M.2 connector?
Doctor que tal, los cables sata 1 2 3 fisicamente son iguales y es verdad que no tiene circuito logico interno por eso supuestamente transmiten todos a la misma velocidad . mas seguro que los mas modernos deben de transmitir a mayor velocidad ya que por logica los cables de su estructura deben de ser mejor conductividad de datos asi como los cables de internet que hay categoria 5e cat6 cat6a etc. etc.que las categorias hacen las diferencia de las velocidades . hay va estar la diferencia de la velocidad de cada cable por pura logica. se tendria que hacer un video haciendo un test de lectura de velocidad con cada categoria de cable sata para salir de esa duda que muchos tenemos.
They just connect sata HDD's/SSD's or optical disk drives to the motherboard. With new PC's now a days you probably wont need sata cables since NVME SSD's have become the norm now.
Initial thoughts may be either that the SATA cable for the boot drive such as the hard drive or SSD may have been disconnected or came loose. Also, perhaps your computer BIOS is now looking at the DVDRW drive as the primary boot drive?
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All the facts needed in under 3 minutes. No nonsense, no prattle, no music. This is how to make a good youtube video. Main takeaways: (a) the cable spec has not changed since SATA 1, all cables support SATA 3 with 6Gbps (b) connectors with lock/latch is an improvement (c) angled connectors come in left/right (or up/down) varieties (d) Wire gauges 26 to 28 are common, lower is thicker and better wires.
Mind blown! 🤯
I have amassed DOZENS of these things and was always under the impression there were speed differences.
What a legend!
Even after 2 years usefull!
An excellent video that got straight to the point and told me exactly what I needed to know ✌️
I was about to order sata cables and this video helped me realize my useless cd drive was using one. Yay. Purchase averted.
dude i have over 30 sata data cables and wasnt sure if they had speed bottlenecks and you just taught me that left and right angle ends and better wirer management i use two duel hot swap bays for HDD Repairs and Backups and you just helped me out big time i got faster speeds shorter wires and looks much better SUBBED and LIKED keep up with the tips my bro. VIDEO IDEA: now in days i keep having to fix HDD and sometimes SSD and the main problem for pc Slow down is Disk Fragments and alot of people dont know to defrag and optimize there drives i have a drive that can write at 150GB/s Plus and same one that use to do those speeds the different is one is defrag and i only backup and copy from this drive and only run it for a shortest time possible SO the Video Idea is PROPER PC CLEANING AND MAINTAINING would be a great idea from dust and checking parts to software cleaning and proper wire management
Thank you for the great comment. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Thank you for getting right to the point. I love you! 💘
Insert "The Office THANK YOU!" GIF
rare to find the exact info I was looking for on the first hit
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I had 6 SSDs connected to an icydock express cage (5.25" drive bay insert that contains 6x 2.5" drives) annnd 3 years later, I had one drive show up as unknown filesystem, followed by another just not being detected any longer.
Not connected using RAID, all connected to the same sata controller on the motherboard, all with locking ends, firmly connected.
However... 3 of the 6 SATA cables were totally thinner cables! 3 of them were 26AWG, while the other 3, not labelled at all, were super flexible, thinner variants.
2 of the 3 drives that died were using the thinner gauge SATA cables!
I cant be positive if these deaths were caused by the icydock enclosure, or ther cables, but I sure as hell will be replacing the last remaining cable ASAP now that I know!
I also opted for connecting directly to the mobo and not using the icydock anymore, but yeah.
I learned stuff from this video, thanks!
Great comment, thank you for watching! 👍
Did you lose any data from the SSD or you just changed the cable and the data is still in the ssd ?
Thank you! I only have very stug cables with my case, very long as well
Muchas gracias bro, siempre tuve esa duda sobre el cable.
amazing... i have very very old sata cables and came here cuz I was also suspicious they are all the same thing since there are not electronics on them...
the thickness and locking def something to consider if willing to upgrade...
making a truenas scale server out of old drives and need to buy like 10 extra satas so I was wondering if it was worth going for the more expensive ones, but I guess they are all the "same "
Thanks, I had some cables that just say "SATA" and this is the first source I found that makes clear that the cable doesn't matter. Every other source I found just goes into the three SATA types but never talks about if the cables changed.
Glad you found it useful, thanks for watching! 👍
It's interesting to note, that the officially supported maximum length of a SATA cable is 1 meter, or 3.3 feet. However I know of two different times when people have used 2M length SATA cables to hold the SSD of a security system inside a safe while still recording to it.
simple, clear, great😊
As long as you run 26 gauge Sata cables you will be ok. It's the Sata port they're connected too that will distinguish the transfer rates. And try not to use a longer cable than necessary. At least that's what I have found building comps.
minor details but very useful
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Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching! 👍
Really informative, thanks
Wish there was a Sata 1 cable, the via k8t800 chipset doesn’t support sata3 and ssd's don’t have jumpers to limit their speed.
Why I went for the ASUS A8N-SLI in early 2005!
^was A VIA Chipset fan(blind)boy before...
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thank you so much
So does the same logic apply to cat 5, 5e , and cat 6? It's just copper wires.
Great question! The setup of cat5, cat5e, and cat6 is indeed similar and allows them to be backwards compatible.
However the gauge of the internal wires, thickness of sheathing, frequency of internal twisting, and additions of center cores in the cables allow for cat5e to reach higher speeds than cat5 without interference, and cat6 to reach even higher than that. 👍
Thanks!
I have one cable I at first believed to be SATA, but "M2" is labeled on it. Can I use it to connect an HDD to my motherboard ?
Interesting question! I went and took a look at all the SATA cables we have here and none of them have M2 labeled on them. Perhaps some kind of ribbon cable for an M.2 connector?
Are all these 3 SATA adaptors are compatible with the oldeest SATA cable adaptor?
Doctor que tal, los cables sata 1 2 3 fisicamente son iguales y es verdad que no tiene circuito logico interno por eso supuestamente transmiten todos a la misma velocidad .
mas seguro que los mas modernos deben de transmitir a mayor velocidad ya que por logica los cables de su estructura deben de ser mejor conductividad de datos
asi como los cables de internet que hay categoria 5e cat6 cat6a etc. etc.que las categorias hacen las diferencia de las velocidades . hay va estar la diferencia de la velocidad de cada cable por pura logica.
se tendria que hacer un video haciendo un test de lectura de velocidad con cada categoria de cable sata para salir de esa duda que muchos tenemos.
How do these cables help me, as I haven't installed them at the moment, if I do, can they help me with something?
They just connect sata HDD's/SSD's or optical disk drives to the motherboard. With new PC's now a days you probably wont need sata cables since NVME SSD's have become the norm now.
What about material in wire. Steel, copper and aluminium
And No info about cable isolation
..and you know what "copper quality" your cables have...how?
@@dallesamllhals9161 buy 2 and destroy one
Yay!
2:25 OH MY 😲
Oh okay it never changes, thank the manufacturer
i added a new dvdrw to my computer last night and now it will not boot all the way to windows any ideas
Initial thoughts may be either that the SATA cable for the boot drive such as the hard drive or SSD may have been disconnected or came loose. Also, perhaps your computer BIOS is now looking at the DVDRW drive as the primary boot drive?
@@XLSTech so check connection and check bios
Can I use sata 2 cable to sata 3?
YES! FFS!
Sata 2 vs sata 3 spped
is it true that there is dvd rom sata cable? and is speed much lower than normal sata?
Huh?
so what you are saying is that my 20 year old hdd is broken XDD
TQ
nice
It's a sata cable like, satellite or past tense sitting, sat.
This is false. I have older and newer cables and the newer ones are ALWAYS faster. By 100mbps or more in speed.
Really!?? Show us(or just me) !
i picture this guy having massive front teeth and spitting while he talks as he pushes his glasses up.
L comment frfr
Cringe comment
@@Acevern cope harder
No hablo ingles pero gracias al subtitulo se entiende gracias x la recomendacion ya estoy arto de las fallas de mi cable y si usava sin seguro ahora gracias a esta esplicacion , me comprare uno con seguro