Karl Larsen: >> hard drive housing. There the new SATA plugs slide onto the printed >> wiring board. Those will accept maybe 100 connections and disconnects >> before a foil comes loose of the board. Then you need a new hard drive. Steve Searle: > Do you have any evidence for this statement? I was thinking something similar about the "number" of times it'd survive. I'm sure Karl just made up that figure. I don't think it'd survive much handling, they don't look in the slightest bit robust. But I'd be more inclined to think that the way the average ham-fisted user handles these things, they'd probably break the connector with just a few goes at it, perhaps the first one. They're designed in an L shape, where you can't pull straight out, you just about always bend it as you pull, unless you *don't* grab the connector in the most obvious manner. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
