Hard drive overclocking!

[Chode Messiah]

Can a hard drive become faster by replacing it's motor, and/ or increasing rpms? This is probably useless/ would yield a low performance gain, but I was just thinking...

 

[w00t]

rofl...no

 

[TStep]

pci/agp locks are desirable so we don't have to overclock harddrives.

 

[CrispyFried]

negative.

 

[canadageek]

*looks at ravaged hard drives and various parts*

umm.... no

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: TStep
pci/agp locks are desirable so we don't have to overclock harddrives.

Does running the pci/agp buses out of sync raise RPMs, or just the speed of the IDE bus?

 

[bwnv]

NO harddrives are run off of the circuit bord on the drive. The motor will not spin any faster even if you are overclocking your comp. What happens when you try to o/c the bus is that you cram too much sh|t into a pipe meant for x-amount of stuff. You end up currepting data, loosing data, etc. not a good idea. Anyway the drive does not spin any faster if you overclock or do anything else. !

 

[Calin]

Originally posted by: Fox5

Originally posted by: TStep
pci/agp locks are desirable so we don't have to overclock harddrives.

Does running the pci/agp buses out of sync raise RPMs, or just the speed of the IDE bus?

It just forces the buffering electronics from the hard drive to work at a faster speed. This has absolutely no effect on rotational speed.

 

[TStep]

Originally posted by: Fox5

Originally posted by: TStep
pci/agp locks are desirable so we don't have to overclock harddrives.

Does running the pci/agp buses out of sync raise RPMs, or just the speed of the IDE bus?

To further reinforce the above answers, I did the following this weekend. While screwing around with an older board, I forgot to set a pci bus speed management parameter in BIOS. Set everything for a highly overclocked front side bus, and whammo, corrupt data as soon as I started up a systems monitoring program. The drive is a spare hd I use for testing, so it wasn't devastating. However, it's a good reminder from what used to occur quite often just a few years ago when overclocking. I guess I've become a little lax with the modern day "convenience" BIOS.

 

[mdchesne]

let's put it this way... the origional viruses on the old, old pc systems were able to access HDD speed to physically destroy a computer (not so today since there are things preventing viruses from activating physical adjustments). they did so by accelerating the HDD rotational speed past what it is set at and consequently destroyed the HDD. moral: don't OC a HDD

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: mdchesne
let's put it this way... the origional viruses on the old, old pc systems were able to access HDD speed to physically destroy a computer (not so today since there are things preventing viruses from activating physical adjustments). they did so by accelerating the HDD rotational speed past what it is set at and consequently destroyed the HDD. moral: don't OC a HDD

I've never heard about that... interesting... must be a bit odd to hear a jet plane taking off and crashing inside your computer case