1 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:14,920 SATA cables something you rarely think about but today's test is going to be in 2 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:21,279 my opinion pretty interesting because I recently had a s cable die on me it was 3 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:22,880 one of these ancient uh DFI land party 4 00:00:21,279 --> 00:00:27,199 ones that I've kept around because they're awesome and their UV yellow and 5 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:32,320 stuff um not this one it was a different one so it occurred to me that there's 6 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:37,000 probably different stages of failur Ness in a particular cable maybe there is 7 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:40,920 maybe there isn't I know DVI cables there's they work or they don't uh 8 00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:45,120 whereas VGA cables there's a wide spectrum of quality in terms of the uh 9 00:00:43,239 --> 00:00:50,039 the signal that they can transmit so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take four different SATA cables 10 00:00:48,079 --> 00:00:55,079 including this is an Intel one right here with proper locking connectors on 11 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:59,239 there you go on whoops both sides there you go locking connectors both sides I'm 12 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:04,479 going to take an older style one with no locking connector I'm going to take a 13 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:06,600 long cable there you go so that's a 14 00:01:04,479 --> 00:01:10,799 significantly longer cable going to take another Intel one although a different 15 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:14,159 style without locking connectors and then I'm going to just take like some 16 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:23,000 random like the cheapest feeling one I could find and then what I'm going to 17 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:24,799 do is run the as SSD ass SSD Benchmark a 18 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:29,600 number of times on the drive first with the original cable which I'm going to 19 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:32,680 use as my sort of assumed fine cable 20 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:36,000 it's Intel cable uh made by bizlink 21 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:38,200 there you go bizlink something like that 22 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:41,000 you can see that there you go and then uh so I'll run it a few times to make 23 00:01:39,360 --> 00:01:43,720 sure I get consistent results and then I'm going to go ahead and start swapping 24 00:01:42,479 --> 00:01:47,719 cables and see what kind of results I get stay tuned guys my control tests are 25 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:51,159 all run so this is this is pretty representative of what we get with the 26 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:57,719 Intel cable now let's start running some of the other cables I'm going to start 27 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,719 with the long foxcon 28 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:05,439 cable I've been asked any number of times uh to explain the difference 29 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:09,280 especially when they're included with motherboards between SATA 6 gbit per 30 00:02:07,759 --> 00:02:17,400 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 31 00:02:14,239 --> 00:02:20,000 SATA 2 3 GB per second cables that are 32 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:23,280 included with motherboards and uh based on the results that I'm getting with 33 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:28,640 this particular cable compared to the ones that I've already run which are the 34 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:30,800 Intel cable the foxcon long cable and 35 00:02:28,640 --> 00:02:36,160 the old crappy DFI cable uh it looks like the answer is 36 00:02:33,920 --> 00:02:41,000 what I suspected all along but never had any empirical data to prove uh looks 37 00:02:39,519 --> 00:02:45,519 like it we're going to end up with pretty much identical results so I'll 38 00:02:43,879 --> 00:02:49,840 show you guys the the final ones but yeah this is an unexpected addition to 39 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:54,159 the test that I hadn't uh thought of doing before well I finished my last 40 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:58,440 test so this means that the results that I have are pretty much final so like I 41 00:02:56,879 --> 00:03:05,159 said this is pretty much what I figured would happen uh these first four are 42 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:08,040 actually all the Intel cable just to for 43 00:03:05,159 --> 00:03:11,879 me to run some attests back to back to figure out what the uh what the 44 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:17,159 consistency of results was going to be like so you can see the overall Benchmark score so we're going to call 45 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:24,799 these four scores sort of our margin of our margin of error so anywhere from 470 46 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:27,760 to 464 will be considered to be a 47 00:03:24,799 --> 00:03:31,799 um sort of consistent Benchmark score with our with our control group so here 48 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:35,879 the long cable the first run the long cable the second run so I stopped doing 49 00:03:33,959 --> 00:03:40,640 two runs per cable when I realized how close together results were going to be 50 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:44,360 here's the old crappy DFI cable here is 51 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:46,599 the ASUS 6 GB pers second specific cable 52 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:52,360 here is the red generic cable so what did we learn today folks as long as your 53 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:57,439 SATA cable works it seems to pretty much work that is not to say that cables 54 00:03:54,480 --> 00:04:02,079 cannot be defective I do have defective SATA cables that don't work at all and 55 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:06,120 cause glitchy Behavior but that's pretty rare I've only had about two or three 56 00:04:04,040 --> 00:04:12,599 SATA cables die on me in the years that SATA's been uh a relevant standard 57 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:19,079 so I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out this little 58 00:04:14,959 --> 00:04:21,880 episode on lonus Tech tips about SATA 59 00:04:19,079 --> 00:04:27,720 cables an exciting topic don't forget to 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