I have had too many problems with those stupid crappy designed sata data cables , i have never seen such a pile of puke as the SATA connection design and whoever designed and ratified needs to be hung drawn and slaughtered.
The same is true of almost all cables with more than a few wires and in fact all computer equipment in that the originals are good and as they get cheaper and cheaper and cheaper, the failure rates skyrocket. Some motherboards are now advertising "double the copper". If you are having that much trouble you could try buying some more expensive likely non China versions. -- _______________________________________________________________________ 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface' (Doug McIlroy) _______________________________________________________________________