can overclocking kill your HDD??

[jonj320]

im currently in the process of trying to overclock my cpu, but i noticed after running prime95 for a few hours that my hard drive began chirping, or making some king of noise.

i replaced my old hard drive with this one becuse it died after a few weeks of making this same sound. so im wonderin if this could have anything to do with my overclocking?? and if it does will my oc affect my next hard drive??

 

[shadowthor]

overclocking the cpu has no direct effect with the hard drive.

 

[blackwidow_rsa]

Maybe it is your PSU not supplying enough power thats causing your hdd to corrupt/break/etc. so OC can, indirectly, destroy a hdd.

 

[nvalhalla]

An unstable OC causes the computer to crash repeatedly, leading to damage to the OS and software, but not hardware damage. PSU trouble could also cause it. Both of these are rather unlikely to be your cause though, I'd look elsewhere.

 

[jonj320]

ok, thanks. my psu is a 800w so i doubt thats it. and right now my oc is unstable and im getting many crashes, im still working on it.

 

[th_username]

of course never

 

[jsc]

What are the system specs and what have you done so far?

 

[nukemaster]

Overclocking will not damage your hard drive, but there are 2 things that can corrupt the data on them.

If you push too hard your cpu or memory can error. If it writes enough errors to the drive you will get data corruption. This is why testing is important. it should be 100% stable before using it for day to day activities.

If your PCI/PCI-E frequency gets pushed to high your hard drive controller can cause data corruption. This should not happen on modern boards, but has been a problem in the past and if your board is old it could be an issue.

Clicking can be caused by a bad drive, bad cable(power or data) or in rare cases a bad board. Try to plug the drive on another power connector.

 

[MrLinux]

Chirping (some times heard as clicking) is caused when the hard drive has to re-calibrate the drive heads, it can be caused by thermal expansion (drive temperature varying a lot) or by a drive that's on it's way out.

 

[FrozenGpu]

Can you overclock your HDD, like if its a 5400rpm drive make it run like 10k rpm's, is that possible? :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[frozenlead]

I suppose, if you overvolted the motor on the platter, the leads for it are exposed, it'd be easy. You'd burn that motor up real fast, though, and I'm not entirely sure the drive would actually operate at those speeds. the internal components aren't made to go that fast.

Sounds like a nice experiment...
I have some old disks laying around...

 

[jonj320]

What are the system specs and what have you done so far?

i have 2 topics posted here. im usually checking them every few hours so they are up to date as to my system specs

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/247884-29-quick-prime95-question#t1765125

and

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/247900-29-stable-load-crashes-idle#t1765095

 

[FrozenGpu]

I suppose, if you overvolted the motor on the platter, the leads for it are exposed, it'd be easy. You'd burn that motor up real fast, though, and I'm not entirely sure the drive would actually operate at those speeds. the internal components aren't made to go that fast.

Sounds like a nice experiment...
I have some old disks laying around...

dude let's do it!!!

Take picture and make a log so i can follow!!!

I just threw that out there, but man if that's possible, I'd love to see how it'd work