Why does nobody talk about how long SATA cable swaps can take

Spent 4 hours yesterday tracking down a bad SATA cable that was dropping reads every 30 seconds on a client's RAID array. Has anyone else dealt with intermittent failures that only show under load?

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craig.reese7d ago

Four hours for a cable swap? You really don't have anything better to do with a whole afternoon, huh.

the_joel7d ago

Four hours seems like a lot for a cable swap, are you sure it wasn't just user error?