It only took about four years to figure this out

[LubeDude]

Around four years ago I built my first computer, a little outdated now but completly upgradeable. I initially had two hard drives, and it has a full gig of ram and it`s presently a 2 gig AMD. and a 128 videocard that`s TV compatable. Works great at home and does my Photograghy great. Anyway, to the point. I thought I had defective hard drives all along, having to put one in about every year. It would start not wanting to boot up but if I whacked the case, sometimes it would, then it would die. I`d buy another hard drive and install it and things would be fine for about a year with only ocational no boot times. It started this again recently so I thought that just maybe it had a bad Hard drive cable. I purchased the very expesive sheilded cables when I built it originally and replaced it with one of those cheap ones you get with a new hard drive. Everything is fine now and I think the computer is a slight bit faster with the cheap cable. Glad I saved all those old hard drives.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: It only took about four years to figure this out

I hope that is it Lube, you have a year to go to find out.

 

[KaGee]

Re: It only took about four years to figure this out

Those round cables are for appearances only. There are no benefit over the "cheap" flat cables.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: It only took about four years to figure this out

I've got the round cables in my current 'puter. It was my understanding, and the reason I used them, that they allowed for better air flow plus they didn't require as much space when you had a gazillion things crammed in the box.

So far, at least two years and no probs at all. But there is no reason that you couldn't run across a bad one of either style.

 

[i386]

Re: It only took about four years to figure this out

Sorry for your troubles LubeDude. Sometimes it's like that. It's very rewarding when you finally get the fix. I hope you found it.

But yea, round cables here. Performance wise they offer no benefit. Just looks and better cooling.

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