SATA and Overclocking

[Glavinsolo]

General Questions

What are the drawbacks to overclocking your cpu with SATA attached storage?

What is a workaround?

Personal Question

If overclocking affects my data on my SATA drives should I just switch back to IDE
i'm sure I could get close to my performance of my 2x74gb raptors. I will miss them though.

-Glavin

 

[Algere]

1. 1. I'd assume the same as with a PATA hard drive e.g. corrupted data, drive failure, etc.

1. 2. Motherboard w/ working PCI Lock

 

[Glavinsolo]

ok, so I have a mobo with a working pci lock so I am in the clear.

 

[Algere]

And connected to the Promise Controller

forgot to mention that 😉

 

[Glavinsolo]

why the promise controller? I have it through VIA's raid 0 config. I thought the southbridge would have more bandwidth.

Thanks
Glavin

 

[Algere]

Promise controller runs through the PCI bus & I don't think the VIA does ergo the PCI lock may not work with it.

 

[Glavinsolo]

Hmm, that might be why my defrag took so long. I will try it through the promise to see.

One last question... Software to check for corrupted data and failures? Any recommendations?

-Glavin

 

[Algere]

hmm

Windows Scan disk or whatever it's called for corrupted data checking & the Promise controller should have SMART features and there's a diagnostic program that displays SMART status but I can't remember it off the top of my head.

It wasn't Sandra but that might work (not sure).

EDIT: It was EVEREST

 

[Gomce]

stop be so paranoid dude

 

[Glavinsolo]

If someone has experience in this please respond...


Does overclocking your computer cause data corruption if you are running a raid on your southbridge?

 

[Sheriff]

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
If someone has experience in this please respond...


Does overclocking your computer cause data corruption if you are running a raid on your southbridge?

No

 

[Glavinsolo]

even if it is sata?

do you have a website with details?

 

[obeseotron]

I run an SATA Hitachi 7k250 on an overclocked Athlon64 with an overclocked bus and it works fine because i have a pci lock.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

if you have a pci lock don't worry. i run mine at a 20% overclock of the fsb and don't have anyprobs without a lock

 

[Glavinsolo]

is yours on the onboard controller or is it linked to the southbridge for more throughput.

Oh, while we are on this subject previously on my P4 system practically the same setup just a 2.8 and P4c800-e I played games and wouldn't have any problems.

Now with the setup below I get crackling on my sound card when the drives are accessing. What causes this? I also found the same thing when encoding video off my TV Tuner