SATA Cable Problems.

[mikeg]

I know most people here are all geekheads and always tinker with there pc's. Well have any of you had problems with your SATA cables giving you problems. I have a couple of systems running in my room and noticed that after a while the HD connected to the SATA cables start giving me problems. After about 3 months of just daily use I will start getting random boot errors like cannot read x.x file plz reinstall or it even gets as bad as NTloader not foud please insert system disk. The fix for is really simple I just have to open up the case and unplug the SATA cable from the drive then reinsert it then all the problems go away for a couple of more months. I thought the last time I would replace the SATA cables with the type that lock and still I noticed that I get the same errors it just might take a little longer. Well let me know if any of you have had any stories like that and let me know what you did to fix it.
Mike

 

[Old Hippie]

Hey Mike!

I think we all have stories about bad cables but no where as frequent as you.

We had a big discussion a coupla months ago about cables that cost a little extra.

Some guys swear at them, some guys swear by them. :laugh:

What I've done is replace most of mine with yellow or flexy red cables from SataCable.com.

All I can say is, I've never had a problem with any of those.

As always, YMMV!

 

[Engineer]

Had a drive earlier this year start flaking out. Tried everything from formatting and reinstall, to using the software of the mfg. to check the drive, etc. Finally, replaced the SATA cable (which had been working for 2 years + ) and bam, all is well again. The drive would work some of the time and would freeze often, especially during boot (for up to 30 minutes). Works fine now (lost quite a bit of data though).

 

[EarthwormJim]

Every single SATA cable that came with my Epox motherboard would cause my RAID 5 array of 4 drives to degrade every other day.