Why do SATA connectors need reseating so often?

mrochester

mrochester

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So in my last two build (about 4 years worth of time) I have had problems with SATA cables requiring reseating every so often. I use cables that have the metal clips. Just now I returned to my PC which had been switched on for over 2 days. A few moments after I started using it, it completely locked up. I hit the reset button and at this point it would boot into Windows but would not show the password box for me to login. When I hit 'restart' it would sit on 'restarting' forever.

The problem was solved by removing the SATA cable from the SSD and reconnecting it, as it has been many many times in the past.

Why is it that this seems to be a repeating point of failure, and how do I prevent it from happening?

Many thanks.

M.
 
Can't say I've really had that problem myself - I think I've had one instance with 100s of drives and setups over however many years since SATA came in where a SATA cable needing reseating was causing CRC errors.
 
howiepoohs said:
Er, they dont. My build is 7 years old nearly with eight hard drives and I have never needed to reseat them ever. Maybe you have a poor Sata controller or rubbish cables.
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These are two different builds where I've had the same issue. I don't know what else to get other than locking cables.
 
This isn't a common thing.

Tried some known serviceable cables? Checking and reseating of cables is often a first check when troubleshooting, but the regularity that you describe suggests to me that this is not simply normal operation, and that something is actually faulty.
 
I use a variety of cables, nothing special. Just ones provided with motherboards or other hardware. Are there any common components used in the two builds? IE same Mobo make, like AS Rock or are you using the same SSD or brand of SSD?
 
howiepoohs said:
I use a variety of cables, nothing special. Just ones provided with motherboards or other hardware. Are there any common components used in the two builds? IE same Mobo make, like AS Rock or are you using the same SSD or brand of SSD?
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I went from an Asus to Asrock motherboard. The hard drives are Samsung Evo 850 1TB drives. Disconnecting and reconnecting at the hard drive end fixes the problem entirely. Sometimes the cables have to be disconnected and reconnected at the motherboard end (more more fiddly given its mini ITX).

My old build used different cables which also required reconnecting from time to time.
 
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