Are all laptop SATA cables the same?
no. Some laptops have SATA ribbon cables, some have just a SATA port and some older laptops may have proprietary SATA connector. To offer a bit of snark up front, a SATA III cable isn’t particularly fast. In fact, these seem to be just sitting there.
What does the SATA power cable connect to?
The Serial ATA or SATA connector is used as an interface for connecting a host bus adapter to a mass storage device or optical drive. This connector was designed to replace the older connectors, 34-pin, 40-pin, etc.
What are the different types of SATA cables?
There are three main types of SATA cable connections for computers: standard two-connection SATA cables, three-connection SATA cables, and eSATA cables.
Can you use any SATA cable?
Any SATA cable will do the job as it’s a standard interface across all motherboards & SATA drives. the only variation is their length.
Are older SATA cables slower?
There is virtually no difference between a brand-new SATA 6Gb/s marked cable made this year and one produced nearly eight years ago as far as performance goes.
What does SATA power cable look like?
So what does SATA cable look like? As far as the data cable goes, this is a very thin ribbon like cable with identical 7 pin connectors on either end and a distinct L-shaped key in the middle. The SATA power cable, on the other hand, has a larger 15 pin connector and originated from the Power Supply Unit.
How do I know what SATA cable I need?
There are two principle SATA cable connector types – power and data. The simplest way to identify the difference between the two types is that data is the smaller of the two (typically 7-pin) whereas power is larger (typically 15-pin).
Does brand of SATA cable matter?
There is virtually no difference between a brand-new SATA 6Gb/s marked cable made this year and one produced nearly eight years ago as far as performance goes. Expensive cable, cheap cable; long cable, short cable—none of it seemingly made a real difference.
Does it matter what kind of SATA cable I use?
In the offical SATA-IO document “Fast Just Got Faster: SATA 6Gb/s”, the following is stated: The same cables and connectors used for current SATA implementations can be used to connect SATA 6Gb/s devices. In other words, as long as you are not using cheap knock-off cables there should not be any difference.