Reason for asking: Two drive cables came with a new motherboard. Embossed on the clip end is "SATA 6 GB/sec". One of the two ends of these, however, has the connector bent at 90°, and for reason of ...

I have worked with SATA in the past, so SATA stuff was not new to me... I remember when it first became available and the few machines that I worked with it all had connectors that would come off way ...