O'clocking the HDD!?

[Guest]

Is it possible to o'clock HDD's? like set more rpm or better ata? how? is it dangeraus?

 

[Spdy_Gonzales]

Never heard of overclocking, but it's easy to underclock. hehe

I wonder...what is the speed of gravity?

 

[Arrow]

I dun think so... at least to the common user.

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[dhlucke]

This is kinda like overclocking your mouse. I don't think it would help any. Harddrives are mechanical. It's a bit different than a cpu which doesn't have moving parts. Sure you could make the plates go faster, but what for? You'll most likely lose data and have a bad day because of it.

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[FatBurger]

Yeah, I agree. It's an interesting concept, but I don't think it's practical.

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[ejsmith2]

Boy, that one's tough. It's easy to overclock your cdrom/dvd player with a dremel, but you can't crack open the hard drive to do anything. The only thing you could possibly do is use an external power source to change the +12volts to +18 or +24volts.

Might give you a few more rpm.....

 

[lhgpoobaa]

burn out the device most likely.

overclock PCI & AGP devices though...
33 -> 40 (almost)
as my FSB is set to 150, my PCI speed is 37.5Mhz (agp 75Mhz)
wonder what effect that has on performance?

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[FatBurger]

Oh, and a higher ATA would be impossible. It an interface, so there's no way you could exceed it.

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[peach]

<font color=blue>I think if you use ac 460V/3phase instead of 12v dc, for a short period of time, it might work.

Let me know eh??

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[FatBurger]

Yeah, make sure you videotape that one. We can put it on Jackass. Er, I mean we can show it to college freshmen as an example of what not to do...I mean, an example of a good idea that just didn't quite work.

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