I took off the panel, reseated the SATA connector firmly on both ends, and it booted right up and has worked fine since. Maybe several months. So I am presuming it was indeed the loose cables. Those ...

With due respect, It's not looking good for that drive. Most of the solutions are non-ideal and the part you're looking at won't do a bit of good. If you have the missing part, you may be able to rig ...

For more than 20 years, the parallel bus interface has been the mainstream storage interconnect for most storage systems. But increasing bandwidth and flexibility demands have exposed inefficiencies ...