Akasa Serial ATA / SAS cable

Advantages: cheap, glows
Disadvantages: packaging problems, can cause problems, dim glow

...-----| Reason for purchase |----- I had just bought two Maxtor Maxline III 250GB drives and needed some SATA cables to attach them to my computer. These were very reasonably priced, i think somewhere around £1 - 2 which was cheaper than a normal non UV reactive cable. No brainer to buy these over the others. -----| Length 45 cm |----- For my midi case (Thermaltake Tsunami Dream) these were more than long enough, as the hard drive bay is right next to the SATA ports on my motherboard (Abit KV8 MAX3). Even if your hard drives were near opposite ends of the case this length of cable would be satisfactory. If you have a server case of a particularly large midi case (my Thermaltake is one of the biggest so this is more for the server case people) you may want to buy the 60 cm or 100 cm versions of this product. -----| Glow |----- Ok... Read review

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Advantages: Sturdy. Good Quality.
Disadvantages: Compatible with SecureConnect hard drives only.

...I recently bought one of these cables to connect my hard drive (also WD – Western Digital) to my motherboard. I had never used SATA before and was only familiar with IDE cables – the annoying thick ones that are a pain to connect. Unlike IDE cables, SATA leads can only be plugged in one way at both ends. This cable holds the power connection stable too. This cable can only really be used on Western Digital hard drives, but they are a leading manufacture and highly recommended. Both WD Raptor and WD Caviar SE Serial ATA drives use this unique connection, but there are also other SecureConnect compatible hard drives out there. The main reason you would buy this rather than any old SATA cable is because of its SecureConnect design which holds it in place nice and tight. I have a WD raptor drive, and following the usual hard drive... Read review

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Advantages: Powerful - impressive - cutting edge
Disadvantages: Like a big filing cabinet on wheels

...Only recently had the opurtunity to build one of these and if anyone else would like me to put theirs together please drop me a line. When you first get it out of the box, sorry when you dismantle the wooden palette it comes on from around it and remove the packaging it's kind of disappointing. You've paid all that money and all you've got is big black metal box on wheels. It's kind of like a one drawer filing cabinet. Then you open it up and the inside is one of the best layed out I think I've seen. I'll start at the front where your hard disk bays are. All the hot swap bays will take either Serial ATA drives or Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives. This means you can set up one array with expensive, high performance SAS drives for your important mission critical stuff and the setup another cheap SATA array for the less accessed stuff... Read review

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