During our testing, we also tested out a couple of often not recommended practices: bending your SATA cable at right angles. Many motherboard vendors recommend against putting right-angles into ...

Find a SATA power cable coming out of the power supply with the appropriate shape for your drive, usually a longer, thin plug with an L-shaped bend at one end. Plug it into the hard drive ...

Beyond length, they can be differentiated by the cables that connect to them. Where the SATA data cable is usually made up of solid plastic, which extends into a flat, single-band cable ...