Hard drives and overclocking

[Ymeister19]

I was looking into a new hard drive of around the 200 gig size, and was hoping to go with sata...i want to know which hard drive would suite these purposes best with the best overall performance and wanted to know how they handle Ocing. also is there a difference between sata and sata 150 because i was cosidering either the maxtor serial ata 150 200 gig kit (1610$ newegg) or the WD 200 gig serial ata(123$ new egg) and i gues i wanted to know which would be faster. Or if there is a better choice for me other than these two.

 

[Sonic587]

Aslong as you have a AGP/PCI lock you can overclock safely in regards to your HDD. What is your motherboard model?

SATA and 150 SATA are the same thing. I'd go with the Seagate myself. They offer a 5 year warranty.

 

[gotensan01]

What are your system specs?

 

[caz67]

I have 2X200GB WD 7200 8Mg SATA RAID0 and they are great drives..No issues at all.

 

[BW86]

yea if your overclocking u NEED a agp/pci lock or your system will get messed up

 

[prometheusxls]

Originally posted by: BW86
yea if your overclocking u NEED a agp/pci lock or your system will get messed up

This is not entirely true. You can OC w/o the lock. However you generally cannot OC as far. This is becasue the likely hood is that your FSB speeds as far as PCI, AGP running out of spec will be more of a limiting factor than will the CPU's ability to handle the higher clocks. In addition if you OC w/o a lock you set your data up for possible corruption for the reason that if any problems occur it is likly to affect you HDD interface before the CPU locks up, that is the symptom of an OC failiure would be a corrupted HDD not a crashed CPU. So thats the reason you ahve to be even more conservative on the OC.

 

[Zap]

Regardless of a PCI/AGP lock, some motherboards don't seem to overclock well when using the chipset integrated SATA.

 

[DoobieOnline]

Here's two with locks that will handle SATA drives at high FSB:

Soltek SL-K8AN2E-GR
Chaintech VNF3-250

I'm running both of them right now at 10x250 with SATA drives.

doobie