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Cable splice.
davelectronic:
I'm looking for some info on splicing a sata cable, if possible. Firstly I needed a sata data and power cable in one cable, I have a few of these. But what I was hoping to find was a sata male to sata male, the adapter would carry power and data. I've looked everywhere I can think of, a can't find one. So I'm going to try and splice two male ends to make the cable. The intended use is in a thin client, to try out sata to usb 3 for a flash drive as the storage device. In the past I've tried usb 2 sata to 2.5" ssd, and sata, and 44 pin ide to compact flash, oh and sd card in usb adapter. All work reasonably well. The only option I haven't tried is usb 3, I still need to get a sata to usb 3 adapter cable. But finding a male to male sata, power and data cable doesn't seem to exist. So the idea is the usb 3 adapter cable interfaces the internal sata socket. There is a 44 pin ide, and mini pcie connectors on the thin clients motherboard. And I have buzzed out the conductors, all ground seem to have continuity across each other. Can the grounds be connected as one ground ? I was going to use 8 rows of stripboard, then epoxy, and finally heat shrink for a half decent spliced cable. The other notable thing I found was the conductors are quite sprung as wire goes, no idea how they will take to solder.
Thoughts appreciated.
Monkeh:
Do not try and splice that. You will not get a reliable result.
And connecting a SATA host to a USB 3 flash device won't work, either. What's wrong with just using the SATA normally?
davelectronic:
Nothing wrong with using sata as would be the norm, ssd's work very well. I've found usb 3 to sata adapter on Amazon and thought I'd try it. The only problem was the sata interface on the usb 3 adapter is female, so is the thin client motherboard sata socket. So I was going to try and put together a male to male sata lead, to interface the usb 3 adapter. Most of the IT stuff I've tried, hardware related, works most of the time. But occasionally it doesn't, but before quitting I thought it worth a try.
I would still have to make up a gender changer for the usb male on the adapter.
Monkeh:
It simply doesn't work that way around - which is why you can't plug it in..
gcewing:
This looks like a device to make a SATA drive appear to a computer to be a USB drive. It sounds like you want to go the other way, and make a USB drive appear to be a SATA drive to the computer. I don't know if any such thing exists.
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