Warning: That cheap SATA cable cost me a full server rebuild in Portland

Last Tuesday I swapped a failing drive in a client's NAS and used a $3 cable from a bulk bin, figured it was fine since it clicked in. Three days later the array dropped a disk and the whole box wouldn't boot, turned out the cable had a pin that was slightly bent and it fried the backplane connector. Cost me 6 hours of recovery time and a $180 replacement board to fix what a $12 quality cable would have prevented. Anyone else had a cheap cable cause way more damage than the savings were worth?

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