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good SATA connectors snap on with metal clips, and the majority of them now use elbow connectors on the drive side to keep pressure off of the head. I have never had a problem with a sata connector that has come bundled with my motherboard (usually buy high end ASUS boards, and the connectors are decent) similarly, SAS connectors function in the same manner, and have had no problems with them either as they are even more stable being one unit.
However, I have had trouble with one cheap plastic connector that came bundled with a dvd drive. But it also didn't have an elbow connector, and had no metal clip, it just used pressure to clip on there.
It's like all things with cables. You get what you pay for. Would you hook up your cable modem with RG4-5? No, you use RG6. Do you hook up your 60 in wall mounted flat screen with 10$ HDMI cables? Of course not.
The standards always start out good, but when costs get cut you get inferior products (connectors and cables that barely meet spec)
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