Quote Originally Posted by dave.king1 View Post
The main fails I've had with SATA drives is the cable & MB sockets not the drives themselves, having grown up with IDE drives I find the SATA connectors very flimsy considering what they are required to do

I'll have to agree with you on that, I've had at least one Sata cable with a piece of the plastic near the connector pins break off so that there's no pressure on the contacts, I replaced the cable and all was well, I've also experienced flaky behavior of the cables too.