long sata cables - can it be spiral wrapped

patkim

Cyborg Agent
The SATA cables in my desktop are quite long and in general they clutter inside the cabinet! Is it ok to wrap them in coil / spiral like fashion say by wrapping along a pencil to reduce the length?
Would it affect the performance or cause any issues?.
 

Mario

Ambassador of Buzz
The SATA cables in my desktop are quite long and in general they clutter inside the cabinet! Is it ok to wrap them in coil / spiral like fashion say by wrapping along a pencil to reduce the length?
Would it affect the performance or cause any issues?.

IMHO, these cables are not very frail, in fact, they are flexible and hardy, so twisting/wrapping should not cause too many issues - having said that, it is always preferable to use zip ties.
 

topgear

Super Moderator
Staff member
The SATA cables in my desktop are quite long and in general they clutter inside the cabinet! Is it ok to wrap them in coil / spiral like fashion say by wrapping along a pencil to reduce the length?
Would it affect the performance or cause any issues?.

you won't face any issues if you wrap them in coil / spiral like fashion.
 

thetechfreak

Legend Never Ends
Nope they won't slow down or have an issues. They are very flexible cables that won't get damaged easily.
 
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patkim

patkim

Cyborg Agent
thanks friends for your inputs. I managed to reduce some clutter by wrapping the sata cables in spiral way. I have 1 DVD RW & 2 HDDs, so 3 sata cables were running all around inside the cabinet. I had used the original ones provided with mobo and they were relatively long!
 

topgear

Super Moderator
Staff member
I think you have mid to high end mobo ( model and manufacturer ) as most cheap mobo usually comes with only two sata cables and if you would like share a pic of the new cabling style and some more pics of your cabinet so all who wants to know how you did it and how nice it looks ;-)
 
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