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Bad SATA Cables?

Unknown-One

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I just checked a SMART monitor on my drives and I'm concerned with the results. I think I've got some bad SATA cables...

Here's a screenshot of HDD Health, looking at my brand new SATA Seagate hard disk (Red=Bad, Blue=Good):
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/7540/sata4wq.png

And here's a screenshot looking at my slightly older SATA Maxtor hard disk:
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/8625/sata20zl.png

Why do I think its the SATA cables causing this?
Because I saw the same thing on my one IDE drive and when I replaced the ribbon cable...well see for yourself what happened:
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/5965/ide8xd.png

The SATA cables I'm using have a 90 degree plug on one end and a streight plug on the other, and they seem to fit snugly and make good cantact...but they came with the motherboard, so I can't be sure of their quality...
 
The motherboard only came with two SATA cables (they are the only SATA cables I have, period), and I'm using both of them on the two SATA drives shown above.

I might have a place I can yank one from though...
 
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