U can overclock harddrives?

[Mizzery]

First thing, let me in on this. If there is a part of my computer that can be oc'd, i'm all 4 it. What are u overclocking? Spindle speed, interface, cache speed?

[JudgeDredd]

Umm... no.

What people usually mean by the phrase "will this hard drive overclock well" is will it handle high FSB speeds. Some hard drives tend to go corrupt at high FSB speeds, some dont. Usually depends on the brand.

Again, no, you cannot overclock a hard drive.

[newbxp]

dont think so

[poseidonf4]

well, that would be cool, but I think if you sent any over the standard voltage to the motor in the HD, you would eventually fry it, not to mention it would throw tons of errors (that is if it were able to pull enough data off to even start, which is doubtful.

[The Coolest]

Actually I remember that I heared that HDDs can be overclocked, but I wouldn't recommend it 'cause unlike CPUs the HDD tend to die emmidiatly after power up ;)

[arhines]

Hard drive heads are tuned to the specific spindle speed, and have difficulty reading with the same efficiency when the speed changes...that applies to the 15k rpm drives at least, which explains their sub-standard read rates. In my experience, as bus speed increases, hard drives start to freak out and get bad transfer rates, followed by the imminent write error :-/
Best solution is raid :)

[parkan]

Well, you could overclock a C64 floppy drive :D :D :D

[Zerileous]

how might you do that parkan? And would the performance be that much better?

[dxiw]

Well you could some how increase the rpm's that way it would ahve much faster access times. Like 5400 to 7200 would be awesome, or even better 7200 to 10000 or 15000. Maybe by replacing the internal motor that spins it and making the arm move faster you could make a 15000rpm IDE drive with like a 2ns access time....drool

[jkos]

Originally posted by parkan
Well, you could overclock a C64 floppy drive :D :D :D

That's because it was practically a whole computer unto itself. Oh, the good 'ol days.

- John

[Tebore]

I don't know if this is overclocking but it sure is tweaking. How about using the special software that lets u adjust the firmware in drives so that they're either quieter or faster.