Using Old Sata Cable

Thanks for all the work and the reassurance.

Using old sata cable.

Still suffering from the old pata 40 vs 80 wire cable syndrome i asked myself the same question regarding sata cables and could find nothing in the repair manuals or mother board books so i just used the old asus sata cables for the new hard drive with only the best results. Sata cables are long 7 pin cables. Both ends are flat and thin with one often made at a 90 degree angle for better cable management. Attach the enclosure to your desktop or laptop by using the usb cable.

Plug the adapter into a usb port on your computer plug in the power via the molex adapter unit and then turn on the switch on the power cable to provide power to the drive. Revision 1 0 of the specification was released in january 2003. If you re using an adapter you ll need to use the appropriate side of the adapter it has a side for 3 5 ide 2 5 ide and sata. Look for an external hard drive enclosure internal hard drive to usb adapter that is suitable for your old drive.

Flanking it is the usb 3 0 or 3 1 portion which provides up to 10 times the. Sata was announced in 2000 in order to provide several advantages over the earlier pata interface such as reduced cable size and cost seven conductors instead of 40 or 80 native hot swapping faster data transfer through higher signaling rates and more efficient transfer through an optional i o queuing protocol. Connect the old hard drive to the enclosure carefully. The usb 2 0 portion looks like the familiar micro usb connection.

One end plugs into a port on the motherboard usually labeled sata and the other such as the angled end into the back of a storage device like a sata hard drive. Since the release of sata 6gb s there has been some confusion regarding the necessity of using a specific sata 6gb s cable for sata 6gb s drives. We have addressed this in previous articles but enough time has gone by that we wanted to take another look to see if anything has changed since we last examined the issue. If you want to learn how to connect a hard drive externally through a usb cable via an adapter this video shows you how easy and affordable it is.