Can the Maxtor Diamondmax Plus D740X ATA133 handle high FSB's?

[Seeko]

I need a definitive answer on this. No, "I think so" or "it should". If you've got this hard drive running at 145Mhz FSB or higher, I want to hear from you. Or, you can tell me what the highest FSB you got this HD running at, stably.

 

[PH0ENIX]

f it doesn't work, it's the controller itself that doesn't like the high FSB.
The actual HDD itself doesn't matter; the Front Side Bus doesn't communicate with the Disk, thats what the IDE bus is for.

Basically, if you already have a drive in the system, and the FSB is 145, and it works fine, then you can swap HDDs to your hearts content...

It may help to think scsi for a moment. Because most scsi cards are on the PCI bus, and the speed of the PCI bus increases as you raise FSB (until you hit a pre-set marker that changes the PCI/FSB divider value), there will be a point where the SCSI card wont initialize and/or detect any disks.
Just below this point, it'll probably work fine. Now if you go out and grab a 600mb scsi drive from a million years ago, when FSBs over 66mhz were unheard of, slap it onto the scsi card, lo and behold it works fine.

So yes, it can handle high FSBs.

 

[justinoh]

I'm currently running at 145 FSB stable. I pushed it up to 150 for awhile but not stable. I think I need better cooling. I'm using a Senfu Nickel Cooler.

Like PHOENIX said, it doesn't matter what FSB you're running at unless you're the HDD with a PCI ATA133 Controller.

Hope that helped.

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Yes. I had my 40gb maxtor d740x @ 163 mhz fsb on an 8kha+ for over 3 weeks, with no signs of any damage or data corruption... this probably isn't conclusive, but the drive is fine for me at high FSBs.



Mike

 

[PH0ENIX]

And of course, even if you WERE running a PCI ATA133 controller, it would be the controller itself that you would have to worry about handling high FSB speeds.

Overclockers 4 eva

 

[jm0ris0n]

Mike, are you running it in ata-100 ?

 

[Mikewarrior2]

jm0ris0n,

yep



Mike

 

[sad]

I've been running an 80gig D740X@170Mhz Fsb on a maxtor/promise ata100 card for about a month now. No probs yet.