Question Sata port faulty

kostas1127

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So i had some problems with storage and i found out one of my 6 sata ports is malfunctioning. By that i mean it sometimes doesnt recognize the hard drive. Will this faulty port affect the other 5 or are they independent?
 
So it still happened and i think its the sata cable. I changed the cable and now it working for now at least. Hdd sentinel says the hdd failed to communicate with the host 920 times which means that the cable was at fault this whole time.