Hard Drive data rates

[Tim]

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.

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