Cable tie question

jas07 · 25 Feb 2008 at 11:31

....Im almost embarresed to ask this because i dont think its right but none the less, ive been doing some cable management in my case, and ive put a cable tie around my sata cables and pulled it fairly tight, can this cause issues?

Since ive done it, i seem to be getting loads more HDD activity, aka i can hear more hdd activity, hdd light on a lot more..

It seems stupid to me but that is the only thing i can link it to :confused:

blue4ice · 25 Feb 2008 at 11:36

The worst you could do it make a break in the cable but id oubt this would lead to more HDD activity. It would just be either working or not.

Did you put the cable back into the same SATA port on the Mainboard?

jas07 · 25 Feb 2008 at 12:10

Yeh thats what i thought, its no where near tight enough to break the cable, they were put back in the same sata ports on the mobo too.

Quite puzzled as to whats caused it! lol

C4EVA · 25 Feb 2008 at 12:23

Just try and keep power and DATA cables away from each other to prevent the chance of cross-talk.

BenhB · 25 Feb 2008 at 13:20

Squashing / kinking cables does cause resistance and can cause a slow down of data transfer. I doubt you will get any interference from the power cables inside your PC as the are low voltage.

C4EVA · 25 Feb 2008 at 13:55

BenhB said:
Squashing / kinking cables does cause resistance and can cause a slow down of data transfer. I doubt you will get any interference from the power cables inside your PC as the are low voltage.

If you have a high speed DATA cable (SATA, USB2 ..etc) close to another high speed DATA cable or a cable that is drawing a large amount of current (Mobo ATX, GFX AUX supply) then their is a possibility of crosstalk if the shielding & grounding in the high speed DATA cable is not good.