Overclocking Athlon X Seagate HD

[Guliver]

Hi, thats my first post here...
I finaly assembled my new system, athlon 1.8Ghz Msi KT3-Ultra, Seagate 80Gb 7.200rpm fluid bearing, samsung pc2100 Memory runing at 166mhz cas2!!!, i tryed to overclock that system from 133mhz to 140mhz...
The worked good for about 3 days, then the HD started to make clicks and windows qget too much time to start... result, HD plenty of bad sectors...
i used my warranty and tryed to make the same overclock... result? again hd full of bad sectors.
returned again to store and get a maxtor 60Gb 7200rpm. and dont overclocked yet.
Whats probally problem???
I tryed to overclock using a old fujitsu Hd and get no probblems.

Thanks

Bye

 

[RCPilot]

Get the WD JB Special Edition HDD with 8 mg cashe. Can't beat it. Don't be fooled by Maxtor. They have a ATA 133 with 8 mg cashe, but it won't hold up & ATA 133 is no faster. Western Digital is where it's at.

If it ain't broke, take it apart & see why not!

 

[Lonemagi]

Yep, these drives are fantastic. Good and fast. Pretty quiet too, at least compared to one of my old 7200 rpm drives.

I just put one of those maxtors w/8mb in here at work, seemed a bit faster than the previous hard drive, but this system is also on sdram. You said these things go kaput? Better ghost this thing tomorrow when I get to work then

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[RCPilot]

I've had more Maxtors go belly up on me that I won't use them anymore. Others seem to like them. I built a machine for a guy & the first one I got 80 gig ATA 133 with the 8 mg cashe went on me while I was configuring the system. Replaced it & it went in a week. I've never lost a WD HDD although I know people have lost them as well. So I don't know. I do like the results I get with WD though.

If it ain't broke, take it apart & see why not!

 

[Guliver]

My experience with WD hd are bad. Lost 4 drives.
two 2.1 Gb, one o 1.0gb, and a 80Gb 5400 was the last one.
lost these two 80gb 7200rpm.
Maxtor, never losted a piece.
but here stay my question again, why when i raised the FSB the seagate get bad??
Thanks!

 

[svol]

There could be 2 explenations:
1. It was running short of power which made the HD crash
2. If you increase the FSB you will also increase the PCI bus speed used by the HD controller. At 133MHz FSB the PCI bus is 1/4 of the FSB: 33Mhz. At 140MHz FSB the PCI bus is 35Mhz.
But with such a low PCI bus an IDE drive shouldn't give any problems.

My dual-PSU PC is so powerfull that the neighbourhood dimms when I turn it on 😱