WEBVTT 00:00:07.480 --> 00:00:14.920 SATA cables something you rarely think about but today's test is going to be in 00:00:12.920 --> 00:00:21.279 my opinion pretty interesting because I recently had a s cable die on me it was 00:00:17.760 --> 00:00:22.880 one of these ancient uh DFI land party 00:00:21.279 --> 00:00:27.199 ones that I've kept around because they're awesome and their UV yellow and 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 00:00:29.400 --> 00:00:37.000 probably different stages of failur Ness in a particular cable maybe there is 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 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:45.120 whereas VGA cables there's a wide spectrum of quality in terms of the uh 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 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:55.079 including this is an Intel one right here with proper locking connectors on 00:00:52.800 --> 00:00:59.239 there you go on whoops both sides there you go locking connectors both sides I'm 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 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:06.600 long cable there you go so that's a 00:01:04.479 --> 00:01:10.799 significantly longer cable going to take another Intel one although a different 00:01:08.880 --> 00:01:14.159 style without locking connectors and then I'm going to just take like some 00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:23.000 random like the cheapest feeling one I could find and then what I'm going to 00:01:17.240 --> 00:01:24.799 do is run the as SSD ass SSD Benchmark a 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:29.600 number of times on the drive first with the original cable which I'm going to 00:01:26.320 --> 00:01:32.680 use as my sort of assumed fine cable 00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:36.000 it's Intel cable uh made by bizlink 00:01:32.680 --> 00:01:38.200 there you go bizlink something like that 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 00:01:39.360 --> 00:01:43.720 sure I get consistent results and then I'm going to go ahead and start swapping 00:01:42.479 --> 00:01:47.719 cables and see what kind of results I get stay tuned guys my control tests are 00:01:45.880 --> 00:01:51.159 all run so this is this is pretty representative of what we get with the 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 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:57.719 with the long foxcon 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:05.439 cable I've been asked any number of times uh to explain the difference 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:09.280 especially when they're included with motherboards between SATA 6 gbit per 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 00:02:14.239 --> 00:02:20.000 SATA 2 3 GB per second cables that are 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:23.280 included with motherboards and uh based on the results that I'm getting with 00:02:21.800 --> 00:02:28.640 this particular cable compared to the ones that I've already run which are the 00:02:25.080 --> 00:02:30.800 Intel cable the foxcon long cable and 00:02:28.640 --> 00:02:36.160 the old crappy DFI cable uh it looks like the answer is 00:02:33.920 --> 00:02:41.000 what I suspected all along but never had any empirical data to prove uh looks 00:02:39.519 --> 00:02:45.519 like it we're going to end up with pretty much identical results so I'll 00:02:43.879 --> 00:02:49.840 show you guys the the final ones but yeah this is an unexpected addition to 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:54.159 the test that I hadn't uh thought of doing before well I finished my last 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 00:02:56.879 --> 00:03:05.159 said this is pretty much what I figured would happen uh these first four are 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:08.040 actually all the Intel cable just to for 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:11.879 me to run some attests back to back to figure out what the uh what the 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 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:24.799 these four scores sort of our margin of our margin of error so anywhere from 470 00:03:19.480 --> 00:03:27.760 to 464 will be considered to be a 00:03:24.799 --> 00:03:31.799 um sort of consistent Benchmark score with our with our control group so here 00:03:29.920 --> 00:03:35.879 the long cable the first run the long cable the second run so I stopped doing 00:03:33.959 --> 00:03:40.640 two runs per cable when I realized how close together results were going to be 00:03:37.640 --> 00:03:44.360 here's the old crappy DFI cable here is 00:03:40.640 --> 00:03:46.599 the ASUS 6 GB pers second specific cable 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 00:03:49.480 --> 00:03:57.439 SATA cable works it seems to pretty much work that is not to say that cables 00:03:54.480 --> 00:04:02.079 cannot be defective I do have defective SATA cables that don't work at all and 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:06.120 cause glitchy Behavior but that's pretty rare I've only had about two or three 00:04:04.040 --> 00:04:12.599 SATA cables die on me in the years that SATA's been uh a relevant standard 00:04:09.920 --> 00:04:19.079 so I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out this little 00:04:14.959 --> 00:04:21.880 episode on lonus Tech tips about SATA 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:27.720 cables an exciting topic don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and 00:04:24.120 --> 00:04:28.720 other computer videos about ssds like 00:04:27.720 --> 00:04:33.960 this one or the cable that plugs into it