{"video_id":"CAevDkRvyok","title":"SATA Cable Experiment - Does Quality Affect SSD Performance Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2012-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":274,"segments":[{"start_s":7.48,"end_s":14.92,"text":"SATA cables something you rarely think about but today's test is going to be in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.92,"end_s":21.279,"text":"my opinion pretty interesting because I recently had a s cable die on me it was","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.76,"end_s":22.88,"text":"one of these ancient uh DFI land party","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":21.279,"end_s":27.199,"text":"ones that I've kept around because they're awesome and their UV yellow and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.84,"end_s":32.32,"text":"stuff um not this one it was a different one so it occurred to me that there's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":29.4,"end_s":37.0,"text":"probably different 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because I recently had a s cable die on me it was one of these ancient uh DFI land party ones that I've kept around because they're awesome and their UV yellow and stuff um not this one it was a different one so it occurred to me that there's probably different stages of failur Ness in a particular cable maybe there is maybe there isn't I know DVI cables there's they work or they don't uh whereas VGA cables there's a wide spectrum of quality in terms of the uh the signal that they can transmit so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take four different SATA cables including this is an Intel one right here with proper locking connectors on there you go on whoops both sides there you go locking connectors both sides I'm going to take an older style one with no locking connector I'm going to take a long cable there you go so that's a significantly longer cable going to take another Intel one although a different style without locking connectors and then I'm going to just take like some random like the cheapest feeling one I could find and then what I'm going to do is run the as SSD ass SSD Benchmark a number of times on the drive first with the original cable which I'm going to use as my sort of assumed fine cable it's Intel cable uh made by bizlink there you go bizlink something like that you can see that there you go and then uh so I'll run it a few times to make sure I get consistent results and then I'm going to go ahead and start swapping cables and see what kind of results I get stay tuned guys my control tests are all run so this is this is pretty representative of what we get with the Intel cable now let's start running some of the other cables I'm going to start with the long foxcon cable I've been asked any number of times uh to explain the difference especially when they're included with motherboards between SATA 6 gbit per second cables I'm really not sure if you guys can read that or not well it says SATA 6 GB per second uh and the SATA 2 3 GB per second cables that are included with motherboards and uh based on the results that I'm getting with this particular cable compared to the ones that I've already run which are the Intel cable the foxcon long cable and the old crappy DFI cable uh it looks like the answer is what I suspected all along but never had any empirical data to prove uh looks like it we're going to end up with pretty much identical results so I'll show you guys the the final ones but yeah this is an unexpected addition to the test that I hadn't uh thought of doing before well I finished my last test so this means that the results that I have are pretty much final so like I said this is pretty much what I figured would happen uh these first four are actually all the Intel cable just to for me to run some attests back to back to figure out what the uh what the consistency of results was going to be like so you can see the overall Benchmark score so we're going to call these four scores sort of our margin of our margin of error so anywhere from 470 to 464 will be considered to be a um sort of consistent Benchmark score with our with our control group so here the long cable the first run the long cable the second run so I stopped doing two runs per cable when I realized how close together results were going to be here's the old crappy DFI cable here is the ASUS 6 GB pers second specific cable here is the red generic cable so what did we learn today folks as long as your SATA cable works it seems to pretty much work that is not to say that cables cannot be defective I do have defective SATA cables that don't work at all and cause glitchy Behavior but that's pretty rare I've only had about two or three SATA cables die on me in the years that SATA's been uh a relevant standard so I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out this little episode on lonus Tech tips about SATA cables an exciting topic don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos about ssds like this one or the cable that plugs into it"}