or you can take the ribbon cables out your PC and use those as extensions.lol..just joking
Take it out of your wife's PC instead.
She dosen't need a second enternal hardrive.

Gold make better conductors then tin and won't have corrosion build up as fast.
yes..moisture from huminity.
you know...in the morning you see the morning dew build up on the roof of your car.
I imagine there's air everywhere on planet earth.

If i soilder them nicely and use heat shrink tubing..I imagine that would be stronge to keep it all
together and never have to worry about connection problems.lol
Make it as long as i want.

$.08 a foot for #24 32(wire)...for 3M..which my boss still deems too expensive.lol
But you can try radio shack or pc shops...You don't need that much
If it's gray...just use color markers to color them ..so you won't cross the wires when you soilder.

if you decide to use ready made extension...good old scotch tape will do to prevent the connetor from
coming apart.

As for me...He's talking about the Y connector. I still need to take those apart and spay contact cleaners in
those connectors every so often.