SATA 22-pin Male to Female: Where to buy cheap?

[Piyono]

Does anyone know where I can get something like this:

http://www.cpustuff.com/22-pin-male...ble.-CUS22MF08-CUS22MF12-CUS22MF19-p-342.html
http://www.cooldrives.com/sainexca22ex.html

for maybe 2 or 3 bucks apiece?

 

[ddrueding]

Ouch. You will almost certainly get a better deal getting longer cables in the first place if your application permits.

 

[Piyono]

Longer. Shorter. Doesn't matter as long as it's a SATA cable with male connectors on one end and female connectors on the other end.

Reason being that when I'm working on a laptop I sometimes want to have the drive it outside of the chassis. This cable would make that configuration possible.

Piyono

 

[ddrueding]

Gotcha. Would a USB adapter and "boot to USB" work for you?

 

[Piyono]

Gotcha. Would a USB adapter and "boot to USB" work for you?

No, because I sometimes have poor results running diagnostics on drives attached through USB (I have a couple of Bytecc and Vantec USB > IDE/SATA adapters).

Also, It's been my experience that that failing drives have a better chance of mounting (and staying mounted) when connected to a motherboard's ATA controller than when connected through a bridge chip.

 

[Mercutio]

I have a couple (2) male to female bridges sitting here on my desk, now that I look around. They came with Gigabyte motherboards. Mine need a standard molex extension or molex to SATA cable.

They look really cheesy.

 

[Piyono]

Merc, I'm not sure I know what you mean. Can you describe what kind of connector is at either end of the cable, or take a happy snap and let the picture speak a thousand words?

 

[Mercutio]

I have a couple bridge boards that are designed to connect two standard SATA cables and a standard molex power connection. They came with some Gigabyte motherboards that I got a couple years ago.