Sata cable question

[bobstone]

Hello all

I heard back when sata was new that if you had 2 or more sata cables to close to each other it would cause data problems.

I always figured that was bs but I want to make sure cause I plan on heat shrinking 3 cables to each other as part of a case mod and I don't want to have any data loss problems.

Thanks for any info
bob

 

[myrison]

Bob, don't think there's any truth to this. I've got 8 of them zip tied together in my case running a RAID array and haven't had issues. I have read in several places you want to avoid bending them at extreme angles, but I don't believe you have to worry about them being in proximity to one another.

 

[bobstone]

Thanks for the info. How long has your raid been running if you don't mind me asking?

 

[J-Will]

I heard back when sata was new that if you had 2 or more sata cables to close to each other it would cause data problems.

I have never experienced this. I always run SATA cables on top of each other, so it looks like one cable.

 

[myrison]

Thanks for the info. How long has your raid been running if you don't mind me asking?

Nope, no problem, one for about 6 months, the other for ~3, but before that I had 5 drives in the case running separately (non-RAID) with the sata cables all zip tied together. Hasn't caused me any issues on any of the setups.