Overclocking: Are your hard drives at risk?

[Ram_85]

Hi there.

I am wondering how save it is to overclock if you have alot of hard drives connected to you're motheboard.

I have and i7 920 that overclocks very easily to 3.6 on air cooling, but I have not done so with all my hard drives connected.

My spec's are:

i7 920
Asus P6T Deluxe
3x 2gig Kinston HyperX 1600mhz (X.M.P)
Zalman 9700Led cpu cooler
MSI Redeon 4870 1gig
1x 750gig
4x 1tb
6x 1.5tb
All hard drives are sata 2 and Seagate(latest firmware)

Is it safe to overclock with 11 hdd in your case? Please help!

 

[overshocked]

It will not do damage to the hard drives but sometimes you may have to reinstall the OS

 

[Ram_85]

I'm worried about damaging the hard drives by overclocking. I only have a 800watt psu and when the system starts it will be "for a brief" moment it will be at full load. I've had some 1tb and 1.5tb's die on me lately. So I'm worried that there could be a "surge" of power because I'm overclocking or maybe my psu isn't providing enough amperage.

So by going from my system spec's you'd say that I'm safe?

 

[mindless728]

really haven't had to worry about since they implemented the sata lock (post nforce 4)
800w should be plenty, though i would like to know what brand and amps on the 12v rail

 

[redgarl]

I really doubt it since the only connections to the motherboard are for data transfer. Your hard drives are on your 12V rail with your fans and your DVD drive, so it should be almost completely independent.

 

[AKM880]

I doubt any overclocking will effect the HDD's.

 

[Ram_85]

Thanks a lot everyone

I have a Gigabyte Odin GT 800watt

Think I'll be running my i7 at 3.6ghz again.

 

[theholylancer]

err the ich10r supposedly supports "staggered spinup" which will make ur hdds spin up one at a time to make things easier for the PSU

i say supposedly since this feature is usually common on more expensive add in raid cards that costs 200 dollars or more.........

I do see it in a field in my evga X58 3x SLI, but with only 5 HDDs that's not an issue for me (i got a 1kw PSU lol)