SATA cables something you rarely think about but today's test is going to be in
my opinion pretty interesting 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
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