Does overclocking affect a SATA Drives?

[Krashnicki]

Does overclocking affect a SATA Drives.? I have a WD raptor drive that just died. I have asus A8n SLI Deluxe mobo and a FX-55 processor that I have been struggling to OC due to the mobo. I noticed the mobo has been overvolting the processor. Could the motherboard be causing my HD propblems? :confused:

[apu318]

SATA is affected by overclocking when the board does not lock the PCI Frequency. If your board does not have this lock, then you would have hit an overclocking wall around 240mhz fsb. This would only cause data corruption. Whenever you overclock, the CPU will need more voltage to keep stable, so thats why the CPU voltage goes up. I'm not familiar with that motherboard so I don't know much about it. However, your raptor died due to being defective from the sounds of it. You cannot kill a hard-drive from overclocking. Atleast I haven't heard of it.

[Krashnicki]

that board does have a a pci lock but I have heard reports that it does not always work. I had to reformat my hard drive several times. Today when I went to start up my computer I recieved a disk error. I want to repair the windows OS because I just installed it two days ago. Windows was unable to find any previous installations.

[man_utd]

Wow...sounds like yours is not functioning. If there is a way to RMA, I would do it.

[{AG}Sgt.Stryker]

Oh S***! I just made my Raptor RAID my boot drive and re-installed WinXP. Runs like a champ at stock settings, but I intended to o/c to the max (installing a DangerDen w/c kit as soon as I log out). Are you saying that Raptors can't take an overclock?!?!?

[Cid]

I have a raptor and an Abit IC7-G running a 3.0c @ 245FSB stable 24/7 and I have never had any problems with it.

[Bios24]

Hard drives don't matter, it's the motherboard. If your board doesn't have a PCI lock it will run the hard drives at a higher frequency when overclocking the FSB, and could cause damage over time.

[Jimbob7]

if i remember right, when you pass 300 fsb (865 875 im talking about) sata screws up.

[crull]

Overclocking can kill a hard drive if your overclock is not stable and data on the drive is being corrupted. Especially if the PCI bus is being overclocked.
Overclocking shouldn't kill a drive on the hardware level though if that is what you mean.