Rant: SATA

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EyeMWing

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What FSCKTARD decided that SATA ports belong along the bottom edge of a mobo? This is the cocaine-inspired design decision in computers that ever really took off, I mean, why in the name of William Gates would you put the hard drive connections as far away from your potential drive positions as you can potentially manage?

I'm sitting here loading up these 6 fresh video editing rigs. They're due for delivery at the end of next week. My hard drives and hotswap bays just got here today - 12 Samsung 160gb SATA's, 6 Samsung 80gb PATA's and 12 Kingwin KF-72's. This particular chassis, the venerable and highly common Chieftec manbeast is configured in such a way that the very long KF72 bays can only fit in the two upper 5.25" bays - otherwise a support bar gets in the way. Mount the bays up, connect the power, grab the packets of Abit-supplied SATA cables and quickly realize that I have a very, very substantial problem - NOT A SINGLE ONE of them will reach ANY of the bays.

Yes - Abit, and every other mobo manufacturer I've ever dealt with doesn't seem to realize that cases come in sizes other than "ULTRA FREAKING COMPACT POSBOX"

I know, poor rant, but I'm tired. It's been a long day. Anyone have 12 longass SATA cables?
 
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JustAnAverageGuy

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Because in most cases, the hard drives are near the bottom of the case. Where the ports are.

Any drives that would be on top are within reach of the PATA ports.
 
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CVSiN

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my drive cage for 4 drives is at the bottom of my case...
then I still have the 4 standard 3.5 above those then the 5s above those...
differnet cases = differnet layouts..

so no matter where you put the connectors someones gonna be unhappy..
 
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Sketcher

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Hmm, all four of my Diamond MAX Plus 10 250GB 16MB Buffered SATA Drives plug quite nicely into my DC7100's HP Branded Intel 915G Express Chipset Mobo.
 
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futuristicmonkey

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Can't SATA cables be up to a metre long? However, the connectors are fragile as hell....or so I've been led to believe.
 
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MithShrike

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Originally posted by: Sketcher
Hmm, all four of my Diamond MAX Plus 10 250MB 16MB Buffered SATA Drives plug quite nicely into my DC7100's HP Branded Intel 915G Express Chipset Mobo.
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Whoa! 250MB hard drives... That's high capacity right there.
 
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EyeMWing

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The point is that they could have at least done a little thinking. SATA is SUPPOSED to get optical drives very soon. People like their opticals, uh, UP TOP. These wouldn't work in that case, even with a normal sized case.

Either longer stock cables or more intuitive board layout, plz.
 
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Viperoni

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Originally posted by: EyeMWing
The point is that they could have at least done a little thinking. SATA is SUPPOSED to get optical drives very soon. People like their opticals, uh, UP TOP. These wouldn't work in that case, even with a normal sized case.

Either longer stock cables or more intuitive board layout, plz.
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Plextor 12x DVD burner comes in SATA.
 
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Trygve

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An add-in SATA controller could give you a few more inches. I'm running a machine with eight 250-gig SATA drives and one 160-gig boot drive at the moment and I had no trouble with cable length when wiring that up. I used to have a whole lot more trouble with PATA arrays, particularly when the controller(s) are using two drives per channel.
 

What does cocaine have to do with it?

Have you seen any more of thoes black drug running cars with their lights off lately?
 
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EyeMWing

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I suppose the question is - where do I buy 36" cables for less than $8 each? Newegg is obviously out of the question. I need 12 of the damn things.
 
Gunbuster

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Suck it up and buy some cables

yea abit should include 1meter cables because 5% of users will need them :disgust:
 
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txxxx

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Originally posted by: Gunbuster
Suck it up and buy some cables

yea abit should include 1meter cables because 5% of users will need them :disgust:
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You wont be saying that if you build your next PC and find its optical units are SATA based, right at the top of the case. Which will happen, just a matter of time.
 
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EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: Gunbuster
Suck it up and buy some cables

yea abit should include 1meter cables because 5% of users will need them :disgust:
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Yeah, they include SATA which only 50% of users will need this generation.

They supply FIVE PCI slots, which a whole 0% of users need.
 
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