Who makes the best SATA cables.

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Something I often wonder about but rarely mentioned is who makes the best SATA cables?

My experience the Akasa slim fit, Akasa Silver and Intel cables that come with Intel SSD's area all very good.

The worst cables I've found are the Gigabyte cables supplied with their motherboards as often drives can drop out.

What are peoples thoughts on above.
 
Had Gigabyte, akasa, silverstone and a few other generic ones and they all just work.....never once had a problem. I pick the best colour/head angle and stick with that.

A sata cable is a sata cable to me.
 
They're all pretty much the same tbh. I just picked up a few from ebay with custom sleeving and right angle head. They're dirt cheap.
 
The ONLY time i think a "fancy cable" is needed is for when chaps who are asthetically minded make custom colour / length ones to perfectly run them through the system. Other than this... get a stonking long pink one and it will do exactly the same thing as every other one on the market.
 
I bought 20 sata cables without the clips from America there a tighter fit so dont move around like the crappy asus and gigabyte type as for speed theres such a tiny difference
 
Thanks for feedback, I'm a little surprised most people just use any cable.

I've had issues with Gigabyte SATA cables since 2006, I have a PC at the moment with 5 drives all using Gigabyte cables and very occasionally drives will drop out, all my other computers are on Intel or Akasa.

Going to replace above computer with Akasa slim fits as they lock very tight, again it's interesting most people don't have preference.
 
JasonM said:
Thanks for feedback, I'm a little surprised most people just use any cable.

I've had issues with Gigabyte SATA cables since 2006, I have a PC at the moment with 5 drives all using Gigabyte cables and very occasionally drives will drop out, all my other computers are on Intel or Akasa.

Going to replace above computer with Akasa slim fits as they lock very tight, again it's interesting most people don't have preference.
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I dont understand "dropping out", its a digital signal so it either works or it doesn't. If its dropping it then its probably due to either your case being nudged or very hard vibrations from a subwoofer......

I have had the cheap cables with no metal spring and the more expensive ones with the spring and they are so damn hard to pull out!

Maybe its your motherboard having crappy ports?
 
I always buy the directional ones, the metal particles are aligned so the electrons flow better for higher transfer rates.*



















*might not be true.
 
Kimber kables. £5000 for one .5 M SATA cable. £10000 for a 1M meter one. Extra to be "burned in" and with ultrnaanium arseium fartyium space alloy for mega thingmamig wotsamacallit quantum warp field flux generator pureness snake oil.
 
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