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With SATA connections, are the mating cycle specs (which I've seen as low as 50 via Google search) just for cabled connections, such as installing disks in an Elite Pro enclosure? Or mating to a PC motherboard? Or does that apply to the Flex 8 as well?
The first nearly-4 years I owned the Flex8, maybe I swapped disks once a year. At most twice. The past couple weeks while sorting out the sleep issues and then cleaning out the enclosure last week, I bet all those disks have been out/in anywhere from 5 - 10 times recently.
I can't find those specs for either the disks themselves on Mac Sales, nor for the ports/receptacles on the Flex 8. I'm hoping that since the Flex 8 eliminates cabling and everything is mounted in tray lanes with nowhere to jostle around, that mating cycles aren't really an issue, either with the disks themselves or with the receptacles/ports on the motherboard of the Flex 8.
Is this correct? Am I thinking about this accurately? That it's the cabling and physical removal from a cabled enclosure where those specs would apply?
Posted : 01/02/2025 8:22 pm
What do you mean by mating cycles?
Posted : 01/02/2025 9:03 pm
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@softraid-support Insertion/Removal cycles. When I found the Icy Dock enclosure for the NVMe sold with the enclosure in tray 1, I looked them up and saw their specs referred to it as insertion/removal cycles. When I started looking into SATA HDDs and then went down the rabbit hole of connectors, I found it referred to as mating cycles ( https://www.amphenol-aerospace.com/products/r-sata#section=tech&techinfo=97 ) (or https://cdn.amphenol-cs.com/media/wysiwyg/files/documentation/datasheet/ssio/ssio_sata.pdf )
Posted : 02/02/2025 2:02 am
We do not have an exact spec, but it can handle thousands of insertions.
Posted : 02/02/2025 12:57 pm
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@softraid-support great, thanks! That helps me decide that leaving these disks in the trays and periodically swapping to update the backups is a fine approach. I appreciate the update.
Posted : 02/02/2025 3:10 pm
