[nylug-talk] [OT] SATA connector

[Sunny Dubey]

On Wednesday 23 January 2008 08:56:02 am Henning Follmann wrote:
> While I do not think that is bad, I told him that the limitation might
> be the connect cycles of the SATA connector.
> Does anyone know how often you can unplug and reconnect a SATA
> connector? Is there any specification how many cycles are estimated for
> the SATA connector?

You are worried about the actual physical plastic SATA connectors going bad ?

You can do what we do in audio.  When we have devices that we need to keep 
plugging/unplugging and we rreeeaalllyyy do not want to, we attach a tiny 
high quality extention cable of a few inches to the device and spend our time 
connecting reconnecting to the extension cable.

This violates "the least number of interconnects" principle (whatever its 
called), but in this case your friend could easily run performance diagnostic 
tools before and after to ensure there wasn't any real degradation of 
performance.  

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Sunny Dubey

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