[Halcyon]

I very much doubt it.
A sata cable is a sata cable, whatever you do to it.

What matters more is the SATA speed of the hard drive as sata1 (1.5Gbit) is slower than sata2. (3Gbit)
However, most modern motherboards and hard drives will be Sata2 ready.
Do note that on some drives you need to remove a little jumper on the back to enable it to run at sata2 instead of sata1.

The only difference between cables that I can see is that some newer ones have a latch on them to clip them in place.
Does not make any performance increase at all.