[sclug] My disk esplode

[Tom Carbert-Allen]

David Given wrote:
>
> Out of interest, is it possible to get external HDD racks? Just a box 
> with cooling and power, out of which I can run a bundle of SATA cables 
> to the PC. And, preferably, not industrial sized, too.
>
I have one of these, it's a ?4.99 ebuyer external USB hard drive box 
that I cut a little gap in the end and ran a 1m sata cable out of. 
Getting long sata cables is another matter (I got mine from a rackmount 
server which was smashed by DHL. I have still yet to get anything with 
eSATA, but that only extends to 2m. It also has shielded cables and 
different plugs, but the one I pulled from the server seem to be 
shielded anyway (one was cut by DHL crushing)

One interesting FAIL I have just discovered about SATA cables:

The external connector and cable are designed for over five thousand 
insertions and removals while the internal connector is only specified 
to withstand fifty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#External_SATA

FIFTY! Bloody rubbish connector... who ever approved that. I thought new 
technology was supposed to be better... fifty plug in's really isn't enough.