I'm looking for some info on splicing a sata cable, if possible. Firstly I needed a sata data and power cable in one cable, I have a few of these. But what I was hoping to find was a sata male to sata male, the adapter would carry power and data. I've looked everywhere I can think of, a can't find one. So I'm going to try and splice two male ends to make the cable. The intended use is in a thin client, to try out sata to usb 3 for a flash drive as the storage device. In the past I've tried usb 2 sata to 2.5" ssd, and sata, and 44 pin ide to compact flash, oh and sd card in usb adapter. All work reasonably well. The only option I haven't tried is usb 3, I still need to get a sata to usb 3 adapter cable. But finding a male to male sata, power and data cable doesn't seem to exist. So the idea is the usb 3 adapter cable interfaces the internal sata socket. There is a 44 pin ide, and mini pcie connectors on the thin clients motherboard. And I have buzzed out the conductors, all ground seem to have continuity across each other. Can the grounds be connected as one ground ? I was going to use 8 rows of stripboard, then epoxy, and finally heat shrink for a half decent spliced cable. The other notable thing I found was the conductors are quite sprung as wire goes, no idea how they will take to solder.
Thoughts appreciated.