5 Aug
2021
5 Aug
'21
10 p.m.
On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 04:07:51PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
Existing sata cables should Just Work, if they are not
"hot red" colored.
Those s/b summarily shit canned and shipped out with the weekly trash
pickup, with extreme prejudice and replaced with any other color, as the
hot red dye destroys the wire in it in 3 to 5 years. Good sata cables
are cheap, get rid of the hot red ones. This failure of hot red cables
has been known by this now old man (and he's a CET, a scarce item) since
it first showed up in J.A.Pan company CB radios just a couple years
before we celebrated our 200th anniversary in the 1970's.
Do you think that they are using the same corrosive dye in 2021 in SATA
cables that people used in CB radios in 1970-something?
I don't know what you consider "hot red" versus some other red, but I've
had a PC with red SATA cables work fine for six or seven years until an
unrelated fault forced me to retire the machine.
--
Steve