Data Storage - Need Education on SATA Cables

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Need Education on SATA Cables

Will

2006-06-21, 1:13 am

I'm new to SATA and would like to understand what are the different
standards for cables. As I understand it the SATA standard provides for
1.5 Gbps and 3.0 Gbps interfaces. Questions are:

1) Does each interface require a different type of cable?

2) If you use a SATA 1.5 Gbps cable on a SATA 3.0 Gbps device, does it work
at 1.5 Gbps?

For any kind of desktop application, I just don't see how anyone would need
more than a 1.5 Gbps device. That's more throughput than you get even get
from the rotation of a 15K drive with all the data laid out sequentially in
64K blocks!

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Will