Subj : Re: Home Lab
To   : Moondog
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri May 15 2020 16:34:10

  Re: Re: Home Lab
  By: Moondog to Dennisk on Fri May 15 2020 12:07 pm

 > Having fixed up a few old systems, I can state that I utterly hate
 > ribbon cables, and now that those systems are set up, I never want to
 > have to shift drives around again.

 Mo> I find some humor in the board designers finallly placing ATA and floppy
 Mo> headers on the edge of boards instead of the random spots in the middle,
 Mo> only to see the devices that used them either e phased out or replaced
 Mo> with a newer, thinner standard. The only benefit I see for having the
 Mo> connectors somewhere other than the edges is if the board was designed for
 Mo> specific slimline case, and connector location was critical to the design.

I've seen a lot of motherboards these days with SATA ports on the edge, facing outward (rather than upward).  I sometimes find those ports a bit awkward, since they don't point in the direction I need the cables to go.  I still like to use an optical drive, and it would be handy to have at least one SATA port pointing upward from the motherboard to make it easier to route the cable to the optical drive.  I suppose the angled ports on the edge of the board can be good for cases where you can route the cable to a hard drive in a way that the cable is more hidden though, but that depends on the case you buy.

Nightfox

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