Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
I just bought two SATA 3.0 hard drives and I'm wondering if I need to get SATA 3.0 rated cables to go with the 3.0 rated drives. Or is it like USB 2.0 where it's incumbent upon the device in the sitsuation and not the cables?
The SATA 2 cables are slightly improved actually. It has nothing to do wiht data rate, though. They have metal retention clips to secure them to the SATA port.