[Athlon64] Need REALLY short Serial ATA connector

I just bought a new computer case to place my hard drives in the bottom cage with the 80mm fan blowing on them. The only problem is that now, these Serial ATA drives are only an inch away from the connectors on my motherboard - too close even for the 8" Serial ATA cables connecting them.
Are there any shorter Serial ATA cables - or anything smaller to connect the motherboard and drives in such close proximity? Can I have custom Serial ATA cables made?

one of the aopen SATA cables failed on me the other night so i am using the gaudy MSI cables for now. tomorrow, i have two illuminated Akasa 45cm SATA cables to install in my system....

Similar Messages

Need *very* short Serial ATA connection

I just bought a new computer case to place my hard drives in the very bottom cage. The only problem is that now, these Serial ATA drives are only a few inches away from the connectors on my motherboard - too close even for my 12" Serial ATA cables connecting them. My hard drives are right beside the mobo's Serial ATA ports!
Does anyone know where I can get Serial ATA cables shorter than 12 inches? Can I have custom Serial ATA cables made? I'm also aware that bending these cables could be wrong - in which case, does anybody have any clever tips on streamlining my cabling in this scenario?

one of the aopen SATA cables failed on me the other night so i am using the gaudy MSI cables for now. tomorrow, i have two illuminated Akasa 45cm SATA cables to install in my system....

Do I need an open serial ATA to install a Blu Ray drive?

I have a mac pro that I wish to add a blu ray internal burner to in my empty bay. However I am using all 4 of my internal Serial ATA slots for 1TB hard drives in each. I was unsure but though I saw you needed one of these to install a BR drive.
If I do need one of these for this, I could put a 2TB internal HD and free up a slot assumming that the 2TB internal drives exist now, I have not checked.
I am looking at the Pioneer BDR-205 but am open to suggestions.
Thanks
John

Cool, thank you.
Somethings just seem to be hard to find out when you don't know where to look

? on K8T-Neo's factory Serial ATA cables

The orange Serial ATA cables that come with the MSI K8T Neo motherboard - are those male or female connectors?
Also, I noticed that the cables are almost 2 feet long. Does anyone know where I can get shorter Serial ATA cables?
Any information is appreciated! :-)
[Countdown to HyperX memory arriving in the mail: 3 days!]

...it doesn't matter which end you plug into the HDD or the mobo...I guess you would call them male...check online vendors for shorter ones...different colors...fluorescent ones...etc...

PT880 Neo (VIA Chipset) Serial ATA Driver needed!

I have just recently built a computer with a NEO PT880 Motherboard along with a Seagate Baracuda 120gb HDD with Serial ATA support, however, W2k does not detect the hdd (because of it being SATA), the bios does see it, yet I need the drivers to install it but the motherboard did not come with a floppy to install the driver during W2k 'F6' prompt, any ideas or can you point to where I can grab the proper drivers? Thanks.

I need this too, didnt get a diskette and cant finish building this new computer :( Anyone have it?

[Athlon64] Serial ATA Drive Not found Error on bootup ATI Radeon RS480M2-IL

MSI "RS480M2-IL" ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 Chipset Motherboard For AMD Socket 939
I have just built an Athlon 64 system using the motherboard stated above. When I boot the system up, I get an error message stating that the system can not boot up from the CD 95% of the time. I then use Ctrl-Alt-Del and the system boots up just fine. I have the BIOS set to search the hard disk first for boot up before looking at the CDROM and I still get this error. I believe it can not find the hard drive due to timing or what???
We did load the MS XP 64 bit operating system at first, but we found that there were ot enough drivers available. We then did a quick format and loaded the the MS XP Pro operating system after that. Everything works fine except for this error message we get 95% of the time on bootup. We are using a serial ATA 80 GB Western Digital Hard drive and a Lite-On dual layer DVD burner(IDE).
Power supply is a Macron
+5v=30A
+12v=15A
-5v=.5A
-12v=.8A
+3.3v=14A
+5vSB=3A

Hi,
until I was using BIOS 3.2, the system works very fine. After upgrading to BIOS 3.3, my system usually did not boot after cold restart (button) but then after warm restart (ctrl-alt-del) always started. It was not usable because I use scheduled starting of PC to record TV programs. Every cold restart SATA boot drive boot was not found but after warm restart everything OK. So I reflashed back bios 3.2 and the system works perfectly again.
Any one similar experience?
p.s. With 3.2 BIOS I am very satisfied with this motherboard and its stability. But not sure about future upgrading BIOS :-(

Serial-ATA / PCI card / G4 agp 450hz

I've just bought the seagate barracuda 120g internal hard drive (model no. ST3120026AS) for my power mac G4 AGP 450 MHz.
I already have 2 hard drives connected
I can't see anywhere to connect my new hard drive, and the connector points are different to those of my current drives. [I've done some research and it seems that my old hard drives are IDE]
Do I need to buy a PCI card?? If so, what is a good one to buy?
Or do I need something different???
I would really appreciate help on this matter... I only have approx. 1GB of space left on my current hard drives and can't properly use my mac
Thank you much
Matty

To use a Serial-ATA drive, you will need a Mac-compatible PCI card.
There are some here.
http://eshop.macsales.com/Search/Search.cfm?Criteria=serialatacard&Manufacturer=&x=0&y=0

Help How to Boot SATA drive? Serial ATA (NOT)- Raid

hi, i have the
Msi K8N Neo Platinum and i despertly tried to boot from the Serial ATA drive.
i have 2 hd in the IDE primary channels
and 2 Cdrw and Cd Rom connected to the IDE Secondary Channels
the Serial ATA is connected to 3 port due to overclocking and msi detecting bug.
the Serial ATA is NTFS and so the Primary Master.
i want to install WINXP on the Serial ATA and so it will boot from it.
i am using the reguler Primary Master for the boot now,, but i really want to boot from the Serial ATA,,
and plz explain me what the hell are those Raid SATA, and all the other types
PATA and stuff.
and do i need to use the driver RAID/SATA diskett from msi?
it's Western Digital 80GB 8mb
plz help

Quote
Originally posted by Valaire
So... disable the IDE channels (or disconnect the drives temporarily), then just install the drive. You don't have to F6, if you are not using RAID. Parttition and format in Windows XP bootable cd setup.
Does the same hold true with Windows 2000? No need to F6 and add drivers for a single SATA (WD Raptor 36GB) drive?
I am having a devil of a time getting my K8N Neo Plat seeing this single drive, and shall try the tricks in the FAQ thread: Single SATA or Multiple Drive Array Setup FAQ
I cannot even format the SATA drive in the MSI - the system locks up, aborts, or I see ASCII characters in the screen after "format terminated" messages. Drive formats fine in my Asus P4P800-E Deluxe.

My IMac 21.5 mid 2010's HD is going bad on it, after upgrading to mavericks it slowed way down and after it shut off and now won't come back on, would Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB Serial ATA Hard Drive - 7200RPM, 64MB, SATA 6Gb/s worked?

My IMac 21.5 mid 2010's HD is going bad on it, after upgrading to mavericks it slowed way down and after it shut off and now won't come back on, I call apple support and they told me to bring it in but the nearest store is about two hours away. They said I need it to erase my hard drive but I have too many family pics on it.
would Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB Serial ATA Hard Drive - 7200RPM, 64MB, SATA 6Gb/s worked on it? I could replace the internal and get an enclosure for the original until I get the pics out of it?
Please advise, it's like five years of family pics I don't wanna loose them and I am worried.
Thanks
Al Florez

A Brody,
I really apprecate your very quick respond, Its too late to back up as of now, my hard drive wont load at all so I cannot follow your instruction to back it up. Learn a hard lesson but I will from now on following your link.
Also my hard drive it is not available to do the free exchange program.
I read the OWC instruction on how to replace the drive I was just wondering if the 2TB would work on it instead of the 1 TB they offer, I specifically asked for the Seage Barracuda because I had great experiences with it on PCs.
Again, Thank you

Bad Serial ATA Drives?

I've got a Daul 2.5ghz G5 that's really had a lot of problems since I bought it. The graphics card has been replaced, the motherboard has been replaced, and both processors have been replaced.
The other day, I noticed that rendering in Final Cut Pro 5 was just crawling.
Processor intensive tasks seem to go fine, but tasks that involve writing to the disks (both of the 250 serial-ata drives) go very slowly.
Computer is, of course, out of warranty now.
I wipped the computer and started from scratch and reformated both drives, same problem. Disks are not fragmented.
I ran Xbench. All computer tests scored above the 100 point baseline, except the drive tests:
Disk Test 71.27
Sequential 104.09
Uncached Write 109.13 67.00 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 100.96 57.13 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 99.81 29.21 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 107.04 53.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 54.19
Uncached Write 20.81 2.20 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 131.48 42.09 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 93.06 0.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 134.96 25.04 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Both drives scored really low on the random uncached write speed. Any ideas on what the problem would be? Could both drives go bad at the same time? Hard drive controller? Is there a way to test it without buying a new drive?
Russ
Dual 2.5ghz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

What make/model of drives? how old are they?
Hitachi 7K500 might fit the bill. Or 10K Raptor (but probably need SeriTek controller now, a must for the 150GB model and now the 74GB - both are excellent for boot drive). The 500GB 16MB cache Hitachi is also a solid drive.
Disk Utility: Erase: Options: Zero-all is what I would do first.
I try to keep one drive's outer track partition (100GB) just for OS / Apps (and use the 2nd parition for static archive and backups).
Then use Drive #2 for data / media / Users.
Maybe extra (external0 eSATA drives for FCP, scratch, backup and projects.
Some drives, SATA is going through a lot of changes, are trouble, not compatible, have SSC enabled, firmware doesn't support RAID as well as it could/should. NCQ being enabled doesn't help desktop use and isn't supported on G5 SATA ports.
Xbench is not the most 'reliable' test, but those are not normal numbers.
Keep your disk drive in "good health" (run Disk Utility, Disc Warrior etc from a cloned emergency drive regularly to do any repairs) as well as keep log and temp files to a minimum? run cron tasks at least weekly?

G5 Serial ATA Jumper Pins?

My original Hard Drive that came with the computer has a connector on jumper pins. I Have changed the startup disk to a New hard drive in slot one. And I have put the original hard drive in slot 2. Am I suppose to move the jumper pins from the original hard drive to the new hard drive that is the boot-up disk.
And I thought Serial ATA was suppose to get rid of jumper pins
Drive 1: 160 GB Seagate Raptor
Drive 2: 160 GB (original apple hard drive)
G5 1.8ghz dual

No you don't need to change the jumpers. Have you looked up the drive model on the vendor's site?
Jumpers can be used to enable/disable SSC, 3.0 Gbps (150 vs 300MB/sec), as well as power management. WDC's documentation has in the past been more confusing than anyone could dream up.
So while there is no "master/slave" jumper or SCSI ID, jumpers are back, and seem worse than ever (every vendor has different set of standards, features, and what/where jumpers function).

Serial ATA Arrives At Last

Tom's Hardware has a review of Serial ATA. Just thought everyone would like a first look into the new storage spec.
Back To The Future: Serial ATA Arrives At Last
Take Care,
Richard

Best advice in one word: WAIT.
These new technologies are only minor refreshes of current products. Waste of time and money if you buy the nforce 2 / serial ata unless you need the onboard video. As for sata, it is limited by PCI bus as Richard says, and also there is no such HD that can hold a 133 transfer rate and sata won't either. Picture it as ATA150 over ATA133, as you know (or not), ATA133 over ATA100 was hardly any performance increase due to HDs not even getting close to max yet alone holding an average throughput anywhere nears it. Unless you have the money. don't go selling your current nforce system for this stuff. You will find that it will be outdated very fast.
What about waiting JAG I know everything gets outdated eventually? Indeed it does, but these current nforce systems are good until at least 2003 so just hold out for awhile longer and see what happens. Update your video card to a gf4ti or nv30, especially if you want superior game performance. (at least it will be an upgrade worth it, think about it, will a nforce2 really help game performance? not really, a 1.5ghz proc or so will be good for another year, so keep your nforce and if needed get an external video card) The updating mobo/hd bandwagon is overhyped. You'll be thanking me later.

Installation of the LG GGC-H20L serial ATA BlueRay/HD DVD drive

I have a quad PowerMac G5 one of the last ones before the intel Pro version, I would like to install the new LG BlueRay/HD DVD drive in place of the superdrive. Will this work, the new drive is serial ATA, is I can't tell what the superdrive connection is from the spec sheet so I guess I will have to dive into the case and take a look.
LG says it will work with as OS as long as I have a serial ATA connection I should be good to go, I won't be able to use Light scribe though.
Has anyone tried this any assistance will be much appreciated.
http://us.lge.com/products/model/detail/computer%20productsoptical%20drives_optical%20drivesGGC-H20L.jhtml

All drives in the very near future as in the next couple of months are going to all be Sata, Currently most drives I have tested Lite-On LG can work externally on any 5.25" box that has a USB 2.0 connection. Currently I have 3 running off a Mac Mini, no sweat. As for the MacTower Pro it has 2-4 additional Sata connectors on the mother board and a converter for the current power connector can be purchased at almost any PC shop. As for the G5 needing a Sata Card I recommend using FirmTek Seritek PCI-x cards that have internal and external 2-4 ports. They are relatively inexpensive and do not need any drivers. Ordering a H20L for my MacMini media center on Monday.

How to increase Serial ATA

Hi.
I'm wondering the best way to upgrade the capacity of my Serial ATA. I currently have the standard Hitachi HTS723232L9SA62 with 320.07 GB capacity. I have used all of this capacity and not sure how to increase the capacity. I continuously get messages telling me that my start up disk is full. I have deleted as much information as i can so i think memory upgrade is the best solution (already have an external time capsule). I don't really know a lot about computers so an easy memory installation is preferable. Im looking to increase my memory to about 600GB to 1TB worth of capacity. What is the best Serial ATA that will do what I want it to do? (prefer to buy from the Apple store but either way is ok)
Thanks for all your help.

Hi smonty, not sure which part of Australia you are in, but our nearest equivalent to "MacSales" (as recommended by Kappy and many others for US purchases) for on line purchase is probably "MacFixit". They stock much the same sort of range. see http://www.macfixit.com.au/shop/index.php?_a=viewCat&catId=115 for some of their hard drives.
Another good source is "Palaeographics" whose "on line" store goes by the name of "buymac" - see http://www.buymac.com.au/store/computer-addons/hard-drives-and-storage/internal- hard-drives/25-sata-hard-drives for appropriate drives, though I'd personally be wary of the Samsung models mentioned there.
To transfer your files to the new drive you are really going to need to buy an external enclosure as well to put the old drive in after installing the new one.
Cheers
Rod

KT6 Delta-FIS2R Serial ATA Question

I have 2 maxtor 80gb serial ATA drives on order, should be here anyday now. Can't wait!!
Now with the KT6 Delta-FIS2R am i right in thinking it has 2 serial ata controller cards (via & promise?) each supporting 2 drives.
Which controller do you recommend i plug my drives into? I intend making a 160gb JBOD stripe set with the 2 disks. Is there much difference between the two?
With the via it appears you can make/delete the raid config thru the bios. Do you have to ctrl-? to get into the promise to do the same?
Apologies for my lack of understanding but i haven't really played with the MB much as i'm waiting for the drives to arrive.
Also, what is the recommended stripe size? the book says 64k, is this correct in practice? I will be making a 20gb system partition and the remaing 140gb for data and the pc will just be for general use (downloaded files, re-encoding dvds, maybe the odd game)
bios updates?
What is the recommended patch levels for the motherboard and both serial-ata controllers?
Many thanks for your time.
Zarch

Yup, seen the perf. figures... System does seem really fast, but when you're coming from a PIII with 5400rpm and 512k cache, anything is fast Got to remember benchmarks are just that and real performance lies somewhere between 0 and benchmarks...
For setup, I think I've seen mention that you should build the SATA array as the only HDD in the system as a first off otherwise the OS tries to install to the IDE drive. Haven't tried this, but just to let you know.
Also, you have to create the RAID array in the BIOS and also set the array to be a boot device in the BIOS. Without doing this the OS doesn't appear to install correctly (and you certainly won't be able to boot it!!).
I don't think there is any performance degredation to splitting the disk into two except if one of the partitions becomes full. When it gets full, it is much more difficult to defrag the drive (and seek time is what ruins disk performance). I've found that you need 20-30% free to be able to sensibly defrag drives (with large files on there). If you believe you'll only ever use 12-15GB for your system, then fire away - but bear in mind I've used that in the first 4 weeks with my system (without the video files...). Games can be a few hundreds of MB each so they soon mount up if you are not careful...
Just have fun and enjoy a really fast system and dont forget a separate backup HDD (or get another 2 SATA drives and run a RAID 0+1 off the Promise controller...) - and not one of the partitions!!
Andy

[Athlon64] Need REALLY short Serial ATA connector

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for