It looks like the SATA cable connector specification isnt up to much. At first I couldn’t believe it when it broke off with no force whatsoever, but after looking into it and a couple of google searches later it looks like it is a problem that can happen all too often.
Luckily the really nice people at Hitachi storage are looking into it at the moment. The drive is a 400Gb Hitachi, one of the biggest they offer. I will let you know how I fair with them.
Other links to the same problem are here as well as else where on the web: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=1799750
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Hey Tim,
That must of hurt… The next gen SATA interface seems more robust. Did you ever check out SixApart blog package? If so, what were your thoughts… Love the Spellcheck…
Thanks,
JR
I hope they are more rebust, thats just crazy how easy it broke off. The Six Apart blog system is called moveabletype and we are using it here at vizrt for some podcasting, but you would have seen it on the Digital Vision intranet site – we used it, heavily stylesheeted for the news parts.
I prefer Wordpress as it is so much cheaper for a commercial enterprise being licensed so that anyone can use it whereas MovableType costs alot. Probably alot cheaper to use the hosted version of MoveableType, Typepad. Also most of the people using Moveabletype have moved over to Wordpress for this very reason so there is a lot of the same functionality.
hi…
my name is Andre…
i need your help… what you do to replace the broken sata connector?
i have the same problem with you… i don’t know what should i do?
could you help me out… please…
you can contact me at my e-mail sky_interceptor@hotmail.com
thank before…
You need to get in touch with the people that make your harddrive. I got in touch with Hitachi, and they seem to know that this is a problem and can help sort it out. I hope that you have the original drive packaging because that helps to send it back.
In some countries they might redirect you back through the company that you bought the harddrive off, but that shouldn’t be a problem.