rounded IDE cables

[EmoMakesMeCry]

i've been shopping around for some rounded ide and floppy cables and i was just wanting an opinion on them. anybody had any problems with them? any specific brand you would suggest?

right now im looking at either getting the UV reactive ones over at xoxide.com or getting those more expensive gladiator ones...are the gladiators that much better performance-wise?

[MaNiAk21]

I don't really know from experience but in this case, I would go with the ones that looked 'quality' and looked the coolest to you... as with ribbon cables, the difference between difference brands and makes is slim to none, speed-wise that is..

[deftno9]

I have some generic ones I purchased from directron. They're nice and pretty but REALLY stiff, not sure if thats normal :? . I've seen some super flexiable ones but cant remember the name. In the end, like MaNiAk21 says, its all about looking cool to you so dont sweat it.

[Rich]

Find the best price and then go with that. The flexibility issue I think comes from the thickness of the casing used to wrap the wires. Find waht you like.

[notobe]

Im using Thermeltake ones. Very very nice.

[DreagonR]

I don't recommend having rounded cable for IDE...

By rounding the cable the copper wires create a very small electro magnetic interference... unless you get Lead Shielded rounded cable i wouldn't recommend getting them for your HD IDE.


You don't want to be getting corrupt files..

[DnD]

also it slower then the flat IDE cables

[A Person]

I've never really had any problems with them. As for the speed, I havn't noticed any decrease in speed. If the rounded ones are slower than flat then it would really only make a difference when you boot up or load a big prog or anytime a lot of data is being read/written to the hdd. But either way, I like em cuz they look cool.

[EmoMakesMeCry]

well for the IDE i'll only be using them for my dvd-rom, cd burner, and internal zip drive.

my HD is SATA, so data loss isnt as big of a deal

[A Person]

my HD is SATA, so data loss isnt as big of a deal

Yea!!! i love sata. My hdd isn't actually sata but i got an adapter to plug it into the sata port and now i have my dvd-rom and cr-rw on seperate ide channels.

But ya, for the optical drives rounded should be fine.

[EmoMakesMeCry]

i know the SATA isnt a very big performance difference from the 8mb buffer IDE hard drives, but i like the thin SATA cable much better than that bulky IDE, and i like being able to have both my dvd and cd burner as masters.

[DreagonR]

Serial ATA (SATA) drives architech is suppose to be faster and more reliable than IDE...

And also all SATA drive cables are led shielded as well as rounded...

Btw... the performance difference is not noticable to the normal human eye because the difference is in nano seconds... LOL

i'm actually not concerned about the performance... i'm concerned about the reliability of the drive with rounded IDE.

[caniswolfie]

Well the technology is supposed to be faster in tranmission if there was a drive that can put out that much data. The problem with most of the hard drive connection technology is that current drives can't put out that much data to saturate the bandwith.

The cables don't need to specially shielded since the transmission is serial and it much less prone to interference than a parallel connection. Since there is a much narrower transmission line, there is less crosstalk.