Do I need a SATA II cable?

[dandelion]

I'm using SATA II drives on my P5W DH Deluxe board, with the Intel SATA II ports. Do I need to use SATA II specific cables with these drives, or does that not matter. Also what is a good SATA cable to buy. Any suggestions are welcomed, thanks.

 

[nd4spdbh2]

you do not need to use sata 2 cables, only difference between regular cables and 2ng gen cables is a locking mecanism that isnt needed. as far as which are good it doesnt matter.

also dpending on the drive you may have to move or remove a jumper to make it run in SATA 2 mode (seagate perp's have a jumper that makes the drives run in SATA 1 from the factory removing the jumper makes them run in SATA 2 mode)

 

[dandelion]

Cool, thanks for the info.

 

[MVC]

If you do want different cables, for whatever reason, Monoprice has a good selection of quality cables at excellent prices.