long sata cables - can it be spiral wrapped

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The SATA cables in my desktop are quite long and in general they clutter inside the cabinet! Is it ok to wrap them in coil / spiral like fashion say by wrapping along a pencil to reduce the length?
Would it affect the performance or cause any issues?.

patkim said:
The SATA cables in my desktop are quite long and in general they clutter inside the cabinet! Is it ok to wrap them in coil / spiral like fashion say by wrapping along a pencil to reduce the length?
Would it affect the performance or cause any issues?.

IMHO, these cables are not very frail, in fact, they are flexible and hardy, so twisting/wrapping should not cause too many issues - having said that, it is always preferable to use zip ties.

patkim said:
The SATA cables in my desktop are quite long and in general they clutter inside the cabinet! Is it ok to wrap them in coil / spiral like fashion say by wrapping along a pencil to reduce the length?
Would it affect the performance or cause any issues?.

you won't face any issues if you wrap them in coil / spiral like fashion.

Nope they won't slow down or have an issues. They are very flexible cables that won't get damaged easily.

thanks friends for your inputs. I managed to reduce some clutter by wrapping the sata cables in spiral way. I have 1 DVD RW & 2 HDDs, so 3 sata cables were running all around inside the cabinet. I had used the original ones provided with mobo and they were relatively long!

I think you have mid to high end mobo ( model and manufacturer ) as most cheap mobo usually comes with only two sata cables and if you would like share a pic of the new cabling style and some more pics of your cabinet so all who wants to know how you did it and how nice it looks ;-)