I glued my sata-cable and it's bending a bit, how bad is this?

[PolishGod]

Will my hard drive work well with the sata cable bending like that?

I don't know how, but I broke my hard drive a couple years ago so the cables and pins need to be aligned carefully and if I want the cable to stay in I need something to keep it still, I used glue and objects to hold the cable still for at least two weeks so the glue hardens completely. Keep in mind that since the pins move around a lot when it's broken like this, they might just bend with the cable and work fine.

[Cinlow]

Why did you use glue????

[Skipple]

You.... glued... the SATA connector to the HDD pins directly? 

I mean, even if you wanted to sacrifice a SATA Cable to be used with that hard drive this isn't the way to do it. Why not simply solder to the pins directly? . 

 

I mean, if it works, it works... but still.. 

Regardless, it's difficult to see exactly what you did in the image provided.

[johnt]

Oh come on you can't even tell... haha if it works it's fine. Just needs to make an electrical connection.

[PDifolco]

Totally wonky and imo a bit stupid, but as long as it works...

[PolishGod]

3 hours ago, PDifolco said:

Totally wonky and imo a bit stupid, but as long as it works...

How is that stupid? It works before, the reason it didn't work last time is I didn't glue it as good as this time so it lost the connection after a while. What would you've done?

[PolishGod]

5 hours ago, Skipple said:

You.... glued... the SATA connector to the HDD pins directly? 

I mean, even if you wanted to sacrifice a SATA Cable to be used with that hard drive this isn't the way to do it. Why not simply solder to the pins directly? . 

 

I mean, if it works, it works... but still.. 

Regardless, it's difficult to see exactly what you did in the image provided.

I used glue because I know it can work if it's strong enough or nothing pulls the cable enough. I'm not sure about soldering it because it would be the first time I do it for real and maybe I'll break it. But when I think about it, what do you mean solder it? It's a piece of plastic that was snapped off and I probably threw it away or put it somewhere and I don't remember where.

[PDifolco]

1 hour ago, PolishGod said:

How is that stupid? It works before, the reason it didn't work last time is I didn't glue it as good as this time so it lost the connection after a while. What would you've done?

It sacrifices the cable

Not sure what's broken on the HDD, but couldn't you secure/tighten the connector without glue ?

But well not a big deal indeed

[PolishGod]

13 hours ago, PDifolco said:

It sacrifices the cable

Not sure what's broken on the HDD, but couldn't you secure/tighten the connector without glue ?

But well not a big deal indeed

"Not sure what's broken on the HDD, but couldn't you secure/tighten the connector without glue ?" You haven't seen how easily the cable goes out if nothing holds it, even with glue it can move because after a few days of the cable hanging down the cable is now in a normal position, it's not bent. How does that sacrifice the cable though? It's not going to break or anything, I think that would be pretty unlucky.

[NoLeafClover]

Personally, I can't make any sense out of this picture. Maybe a zoomed out one would have been better.

 

Not the best of approaches, using glue - a solid bodge right there. Soldering would have been better, but if you had the tools and could do it, you probably could have replaced the connector on the drive itself. If that's wasn't an option and you really had to DYI it, hot glue would have probably been better. It would quickly have cooled down in place over the joints, filling in any gaps, and you could always have added more hot glue goop around and over the cable connector to keep it in place and prevent excessive bending.

 

If the pins on the hard drive can be salvaged in the process, I would probably carefully remove the glue and reconsider the options available.

[Blue4130]

23 hours ago, PDifolco said:

It sacrifices the cable

 

To be fair, it isn't like Sata cables are rare or expensive. In my house, they seem to multiply more than USB cables.