SATA vs SATA II cable?

[matt91]

I'm rebuilding my sage server, and have a quick question about SATA cables. One of the cables that I had laying around has a small tape flag around it that says something like "SATA II 3.0 Gb/s". None of the rest of my cables say anything about SATA II.

My new MB and drives all support SATA II, so I'd like to ensure that the cable doesn't limit throughput at all.

I'm thinking this is just marketing, and that all the cables are really the 'same'. Is that true?

I didn't see any mention of a difference among cables from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA

[CollinR]

It's basically marketing as IDE is still faster then the disks can actually move the data aside from cache. With Sage cache isn't as cool as head speed.

[Taddeusz]

I don't think there's a difference. I read the Wikipedia article and found this jem:

A SATA data cable rated for 1.5 Gbit/s will handle current second-generation SATA 3.0 Gbit/s drives without any loss of sustained and burst data transfer performance.

This leads me to believe that there really is no difference between the cabling. It's probably a marketing gimmick as "SATA II" is actually a misnomer.

[matt91]

Right-o. thanks!