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Fynl wrote on 2011-10-09 20:10
So a few weeks ago I bought a Sata 6 Gb/s hard drive off of newegg and it came along with a cable that is labelled "Serial ATA III". I've moved the hard drive somewhere higher in my case now and that cable no longer reaches. I swapped that cable for a free one that came with my motherboard that is labelled "Serial ATA".
I did some research and supposedly, there's no such thing as SATA II or SATA III cables, with all SATA cables being the exact same. However, these posts/comments are usually accompanied with something along the lines of "fight THE MAN" and "dont let the new world order steal from you"
I'm just looking for some confirmation that my cables will work the exact same as some other cable (assuming the same quality), without the whole conspiracy theory thing. Thanks for any help x]
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Yoorah wrote on 2011-10-09 20:17
I believe the SATA3 ones might have higher quality control requirements. In theory, a higher data rate means you can tolerate less signal loss. In practice, that old cable should work just fine.
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Fynl wrote on 2011-10-09 20:33
Program installation seems to be faster with my old cables, but I wasn't sure if that's just me being lucky a few times or if it actually makes a difference.
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Yoorah wrote on 2011-10-09 20:39
Feel free to benchmark the performance with CrystalDiskMark or HDtune, etc. xP
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Fynl wrote on 2011-10-09 21:29
Well I was using HDtune to check what my transfer rate was earlier (around 150 MB/sec), but that doesn't help me too much since I didn't run it with the old cables so I have no idea what it is normally x[