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Well hard drives are compressed with methane, and nitrogen gas. One little spark and the drives literaly explode. Havent you heard of the 1996 hard drive bomb attacks?
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well i can confirm that the little f*****rs do explode and that it nearly took my left leg off.
my mate thought i'd had some kind of fit when he came back in and saw my face. then he nearly had one when he realised two years of potentially crucial accounts data (and a collection of porn he'd been working on for a year) had gone out with a bang.
never thought i'd say this but thank god for zip drives 8O
my mate thought i'd had some kind of fit when he came back in and saw my face. then he nearly had one when he realised two years of potentially crucial accounts data (and a collection of porn he'd been working on for a year) had gone out with a bang.
never thought i'd say this but thank god for zip drives 8O
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I don’t feel bad for people who lose HDD data w/o a backup.
And if I’m not mistaken, its the ball baring motor that explodes.
And if I’m not mistaken, its the ball baring motor that explodes.
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What else would explode? The motor has 2 ball barings, and as any shop head knows,... when you spin the balls to fast, they tend to explode.
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It says right on the Seagate website: "Do NOT overclock our HDs. 7200 RPM means just that - leave the 10K to the Raptor!"
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While the concept is funny, thinking of the noobs out there that might try it and kill a disk drive .... you really have to wonder if it is possible to do with a certain amount of knowhow.... im sure that some 7200rpm drives could probably run faster reliably, the same way some processors can be overclocked.... the trick would be keeping the read/write hardware in sync.... and avoiding explosions of course 🙂
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explosions would be easy to avoid up to a point, with proper cooling and lubrication. Keeping the RW heads in sync would be tricky.
I still wouldn't try it (and this is ME we're talking about).
Accelerating a motor RPM would probably entail hacking the firmware, doing some soldering on the board, changing the voltages in places...
Not something I'd try. HDDs are vicious little sods.
I still wouldn't try it (and this is ME we're talking about).
Accelerating a motor RPM would probably entail hacking the firmware, doing some soldering on the board, changing the voltages in places...
Not something I'd try. HDDs are vicious little sods.
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Platters that spin in excess of 200mph, heads that ride on a cushion of air and have been calibrated specifically for the max RPM of the HDD. The amount of work it would take to make a HDD that spins at 4200RPM spin at 7200 or even 10K Raptor speeds is unfeasible and potentially dangerous. That being said, I expect some one to post a story of them destroying there drive and other surrounding components from an attempt to do so.
I think my biggest problem with it is that you could probably try it... but unlike OC'ing gfx, cpu, mem, fsb etc where you get a system hang if you go too far... in this case you would end up destroying the drive with a fatal head crash or too much internal heat build up or some sort of spectacular bearing failure...
And if it could be done to a degree, unfortunately I can just see an enthused OC'er thinking ... wow, I got it to 7600RPM... why not try for 8000RPM...*Bang*
And if it could be done to a degree, unfortunately I can just see an enthused OC'er thinking ... wow, I got it to 7600RPM... why not try for 8000RPM...*Bang*
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I just had to try it. Even though I said I wouldn't, I decided to anyway. Ah well... now that I am vastly more experienced than everyone else in overspeeding hard drives, allow me to share that experience with you.
It's NOT going to happen. EVER. Best case scenario, it's going to let the magic smoke out or make disturbing noises, mabe both, nothing more. Worst case scenario, refer to the exploding drive post above and work up from there.
So... if anyone wants to overspeed/overclock a drive, wait for solid state to become the standard or buy a ramdisk.
ps. casualties: 1x maxtor 30GB (no loss there), 1x socketA board (pity - no longer have one spare) and 1x 80-way IDE cable. Made disturbing noises and let copious quantities of smoke out, nothing more. No POST, nothing.
It's NOT going to happen. EVER. Best case scenario, it's going to let the magic smoke out or make disturbing noises, mabe both, nothing more. Worst case scenario, refer to the exploding drive post above and work up from there.
So... if anyone wants to overspeed/overclock a drive, wait for solid state to become the standard or buy a ramdisk.
ps. casualties: 1x maxtor 30GB (no loss there), 1x socketA board (pity - no longer have one spare) and 1x 80-way IDE cable. Made disturbing noises and let copious quantities of smoke out, nothing more. No POST, nothing.
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Your telling me you attempted to overspeed the hard drive using an PATA cable? Your numbnutts! YOu can only overspeed w/ a SATA cable, or a IC2x1XX SCSI cable that is terminated. Because PATA cables are made using trace amounts of Lithium and Uranium... you could have easily initiated a Nuclear explosion, had the overspeeding be just right. This would have destroyed your house.
Next time, do the research. Either SATA, or IC2x1XX cables that have been terminatd.
Next time, do the research. Either SATA, or IC2x1XX cables that have been terminatd.
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I think I said earlier, that virtually none of us will be able to sync up the heads. Thats factory calibrated according to the RPM range of the drive.
I actually tried doing that yesterday lol. Before then I had no idea what stand offs were, this being my first build from ground up. My old Dell motherboard had a metal plate on the back of it so I didn't see any and the instruction manual for the motherboard and case said nothing about stand offs. After about an hour of trying to figure out why the motherboard wasn't level and how I could screw everything in, I glanced at the pile of screws and it hit me that those stand offs are what I had to use. Didn't mess up anything but I felt kind of stupid.
Oh well, everyone learns through their mistakes 😀
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You've forgotten about the T2 hack. If you play the limited edition DVD of Terminator 2 at the square of the standard rotational speed in your optical drive, then you can safely OC the HD synchronously.
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It says right on the Seagate website: "Do NOT overclock our HDs. 7200 RPM means just that - leave the 10K to the Raptor!"
How the hell might one OC a hard drive?
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