In message , Paul in Houston TX
writes:
(PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per J. P. Gilliver (John):
it sounded to me like he _wasn't_ wanting to connect together
the two machines, just find a way of removing without having to do the
screws every time.

Correctamundo...

Ah ha! I misread. Sorry for the confusion.

I would suggest getting short extension cables (male to female, or if
they don't exist, a cable plus a back-to-back - if _those_ don't exist,
you're stuck!), to reduce the wear on the ones you use - AFAIK, even
good SATA connectors aren't really designed for more than about five to
ten matings. I don't know about the power rather than data ones, but I'd
expect the same applies there.

(The idea of the extension cables - or whatever - is to be sacrificial,
i. e. to be replaced when necessary after a few cycles, so that the
hard-to-replace ones only go through one cycle per cable, rather than
every time you [dis]connect a drive.)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

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