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I break SATA cables

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dobbz

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WHAT IS WITH THESE? :mad:

i got a SATA drive just for the nice cabling but ive already gone through two cables cause the connectors keep breaking. i snapped a piece off a connector on my first cable when i had an A7N8X, simply plugging it into the board. i broke the connector on my second cable the exact same way installing my nFII, lost the other end pulling it off the HD on a different occasion, got a new cable and just broke one end of this one by unplugging it quite easily from the board and somehow the other end snapped right off the HD and took part of the fitting with it. :eek:

do you need to get "quality" cables or do they all break this goddam easily? no im a dumbass and trying to plug em in upsidedown or anything.
 
holy jeez dude... take it easy. Sounds to me like you're a bit impatient and aren't gentle enough with your computer. A computer is like a woman, you've got be gentle with it. I've never broken a male or female connector on anything I've handled, and I've built a lot of computers. Then again, if you've got turrets or something you just may jerk around sometimes.
 
ive built a few dozen systems myself, and have never ever broken any parts either til these damn cables.
 
I have never had a problem with SATA cables. They fit nice and snug, but work them back and forth like you would a molex connection and they pop off.

The way you say an end came off when removing it from a hard drive leads me to believe you are grabbing it by the red cord itself. That is bad. Always grab the plug to remove them.
 
I have dealt with many SATA cables and never broke one. You can't man handle those things like IDE cables. They don't take much force at all.
 
Perhaps you should treat it like a woman and be kind and gentle when you try to snap them in. If you try to jam them in like a barbarian, you could break a lot of things in your system.
 
wow thats really bizzare breaking sata cables :confused: Maybe you got a defective one?
 
I've never broken any either, but I guess you're lucky its the cable and not the board or drive..
 
My little brother has managed to break the connector on two of the cables that came with his motherboard. But then he bought some cables from me (cables that I bought seperatly form a computer shop) and they have lasted a long time. Seems like the cables that comes with mobo's are not that great quality.
 
I have borken 2 cables too. When I first got SATA I was a trying to cram them around inside the case and what not and snapped little pieces of the connector off. They still work but they do not "snap" and hold any more. :(
 
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