Cable length standards

[aman74]

Is a floppy cable supposed to be 18 inches or under just like a Hard Drive IDE cable. I know people go over the standard, but I'd like to stick to it. Anyone know a good place to get an 18" flat one, I checked Newegg etc... and all I see is longer flat ones and rounded ones which I don't want as well.

Thanks

 

[techfuzz]

Originally posted by: Livedistortion
Is a floppy cable supposed to be 18 inches or under just like a Hard Drive IDE cable. I know people go over the standard, but I'd like to stick to it. Anyone know a good place to get an 18" flat one, I checked Newegg etc... and all I see is longer flat ones and rounded ones which I don't want as well.

Thanks

Floppy drive cables can be longer than IDE because the data moves at much slower speeds than IDE. Cables made these days are much better on average than those made 10-15 years ago when the floppy standard was put forth. The higher the quality cable, the longer the distances that data can travel without corruption or other issues. The floppy cables I've bought from Newegg are all like 10" long and rounded.

Rounded Cables from Newegg

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