flash recovery short cable

[pcpete]

I love flash drive recoveries. They are usually pretty straight forward and generally fun to do. I have always used a longer cable to solder on to the flash drives without issue, but after connecting it this time, the drive failed to connect. I cut it down to 6 inches and it worked perfectly.

 

[phaZed]

Likely due to cross talk ie. cable twist issue... I also use a short cable.. 6-8 inches long... but it has terminal blocks on one side in which I can connect the small magnet wire to, that is soldered to the drive.. USB 3.0 drives will be more picky on this front due to the higher transfer rate/frequency.