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Story: Annoying hardware: a rogues' gallery

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For me the IDE cable is the one

To remove it from the HDD you have to tug at the ribbion bit of the cable right next to where the connector is. I have lost count at the number of times the back has snapped off and left the rest of the connector in the drive.

Then you also have the technique of starting the removal process on one end which means you have bent pins. So to reinsert the thing you need to start with the same angle you removed it with. Or you can take a screw driver to the pin and hope that you don't snap it, trying to straighten them. The joy! Thank god for SATA!

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