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How do you hide SATA wires?

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First time trying to hide wires to give the inside of the computer a clean feel, but I have no idea how to exactly fold the SATA wires. I know that the SATA wires I have can't be folded 90 degrees (and I'm sure I can't fold it any more than that). I'm looking in the "Rate my Cables" thread and it's pretty hard to guess what they did.)

Can the SATA cable be put into a circle or something?
 
One of the best thing about SATA cables is that they snake under the motherboard so well. That and the fact that many mobos have the SATA connectors near an edge means that many times I will just run it immediately under the board and not have it pop back out until it is near the drive that I want to connect.

Ribbon cables are thinner, but wider, so you have to be careful to line up for the motherboard standoffs, and they also have the slave connections in the middle of the cable that have to be planned for.

Last but not least, SATA cables are flexible, but rigid enough to where you can "fish" them underneath the motherboard without having to completely remove it, meaning you do not have to be a master at the art of "cablegami" in order to use them effectively. If I had a Digital Camera I would send you a picture of my personal rig's guts so you could see better what I am talking about. maybe someone else here will have one.


<----- thanks xENo! :D
 
Nice. It's my first time using SATA and I have no idea how to properly fold it without causing data loss or whatever. Thanks for the reply.

The site seems to be down for now, I'll keep checking up on that.

And anybody with digital camera pictures of what he's talking about would be cool =0)
 
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