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Construction
Well, Everyone knows what a normal IDE cable looks like, big wide flat and grey. (Can someone explain to me why Microsoft thinks that "grey" is a typo? Last I checked Grey and Gray were the same thing...Sorry, back on topic now.) Its got it's a couple variants on length though, there are the normal ones that have the motherboard connectors at one end, with one drive connector a little past the middle then a second one at the end of the cable. Here's a picture here:
Well, the Round IDE cables don't differ incredibly much in construction, except that they're less than an inch across. So, what that does for you is, it makes the inside of your computer look a LOT neater and it also makes air move more freely inside your case. Here's an example of that:
As far as the actual cable construction goes, there are some similarities and some differences as well. The IDE connectors are in roughly the same positions as they are on a flat cable, which is useful because you won't need to worry about whether or not a round will fit, if an 18" IDE cable works for your 2 drives, than an 18" round will as well.
Then after all of the connectors, and on each side of the middle one, is a triangular rubber boot that covers the cable where it angles in towards the main tube.
Then after that is the rubber tube that the cables runs thru, till it gets to the next IDE connector.
One last cool part inside of there is the actual wires; Normal IDE wires are plain straight cables up ribbon. However in an area as small as this round cable there could be a possibility of crosstalk between wires, so to prevent this, they twist the wire pairs. This allows for better signal integrity.
One last thing to note, these cables are available in half a dozen colors from So-Trick, so you can get a mess of them to match any color scheme you have working for your case. So, all in all these cables are built pretty well and seem to be pretty slick all in all.
Design: 3/3
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