hard drive killed by O/C?

[novice]

I am pretty new to this overclocking thing, and I just am wondering if running my Soyo SY-7IWM/L at 75 MHz fsb could have contributed to the early demise of my WD Caviar 13 gig hard drive? It seemed to run my Celeron 366 at 411 just fine and I didn't notice any stability problems or error messages until the drive wouldn't reboot and then wouldn't complete scandisk and then would not reformat. Are certain hard drives preferred for overclocking? I tried to search for threads on the subject but came up empty. The drive was just 8 months old and is being RMA'd. I just wonder if I should throttle my system back to preserve the drive. I do notice a gain of about 6 to 8 frames per second in UT at 411 compared to 366. I am currently runnning a 15 gig Quantum lct10 in there at the 75 MHz fsb. Is this a bad idea? Thanks in advance for any input.
Chuck

 

[Vegito]

Oc can corrupts data not kill the drive. It's probably a firmware issue. But this could be an exception.

 

[Toro 45]

Western Digital drives along with IBM are the most tollerant of a high pci bus speed.75fsb is actually pretty harmless for most drives, when you get up to 81 & 83 fsb that tends to seperate the Western Digital & the IBM from others.

Have you tried to get the 366 up to 550? At that point it will bring the pci bus back down to 33 not to mention the speed increase,if your bord supports 90 or 95fsb that would also bring it down.
Toro

 

[novice]

I tried it at 95 MHz, but it would not boot (this was before the drive died). I may have to try it again now that I have a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI video card and have the on board agp disabled. I haven't tried it at 83 just because I don't like the idea of a PCI bus at 41.5. Seems a little too high to me. Anyone have any comments about the Quantum Fireball's ability to withstand non-standard PCI bus speeds?
Chuck

 

[SUOrangeman]

83 MHz did in my old WD Caviar 4GB. I had already been using it for a few years before subjecting it to o/c.

-SUO

 

[Ausm]

Forcesho I think youstatement is in error. I have a 27.3 gig maxtor that bit the dust running it at 150 MHZ. How do I know it was dead?...It started on fire


Ausm

 

[Vegito]

Well, thats extreme oc, normal oc should not kill drives... only drunken oc-er kills drive..

remember don't drink and oc

 

[Eug]

150 MHz is not extreme overclocking, at least on most boards, since the PCI is running at 37.5 MHz. P3V4X will be that anyway.

"Anyone have any comments about the Quantum Fireball's ability to withstand non-standard PCI bus speeds?"

I have a 10 Gb Quantum Fireball (can't remember which model of Fireball). Runs fine at 41.5 MHz, but I only ran that for several weeks.

 

[Descend492]

I have an addition:

Don't drink and oc...you might spill your drink

 

[Vegito]

That is extreme. A 550 = 5.5x100 - Raise the FSB to 150, thats 50Mhz over 100Mhz and 17 over 133. Most people can't even get over 140 with a 100FSB chip. He said he ran it at 150 not 150/4 FSB which is what he should have said. But 150 is really high compared to what most people can do. Excellent job.. did you happen to use beer to cool your CPU ?

 

[BuddyHolly]

Never seen a drive fail from overclocking. Seen them fail, but ususally due to mechanical problems. I have a old system running on 83mhz bus for almost 4 years and it has never had a single component failure. The hard drive in is some kind of old WD.

 

[Eug]

OK then, better put, the PCI bus isn't likely extremely overclocked, at 37.5. Even tho' the mobo is at 150, it really shouldn't be a problem for the drive.

"Never seen a drive fail from overclocking."

I have seen data corruption only, but others have seen drives bite the big one while overclocking. However, who knows, they may have had died anyway, even if not overclocked. The data corruption is real though. With some drives I can consistently repeat the problem with a simple 4 Mhz PCI bus boost over normal.

 

[Mem]

Had my old Fujitsu run ok at 75mhz then tried 83mhz & my Win98 OS got corrupted data while loading, so I had to back down to 75mhz & reinstall my OS,my friend has now got this harddrive (still going strong)I have now got a 7200rpm IBM so cannot wait for my 650E cB0(pre-tested to run at 866 ) to be overclocked to 866mhz.