Hard Drive Overclocking

Your correct but your talking about the processor and overclocking. Hard drives can not be overclocked and so room temperature should not matter or the hard drive designers are morons

lol...my room is always the coldest room in the house....good thing cause I live in Arizona! Hot Hot Hot!

How about CacheMan. May help speed things up?

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_d ... 267,00.asp

what kinds of programs do you trust and use off of that site Johan007 ? I was thinking about getting that clean system directory program, would your recomend that one?

So far I have only used MindSoft Registry Cleaner. Sure I was scared at first but it works really well. I will try some more like the CachemMan though my drive already has 8MB Cache.

Hey, this was before i got to understand computers a little bit. I bought a customized compaq computer, Well something went wrong with the system so i had to system restore it but the problem didn't go away or so it seemed. So their came with one of the labtops we have( i have a desktop) a microsoft windows xp home edition, well i installed it on my desktop and my computer seemed to work, but the only problem was my harddrive was now 31 gigs instead of its original factory standards of 80 or 70 somewhre around that. well lately i've been very interested in fixing my computer, but to answer some question, yes your harddrive can be over clocked coz i did it before but it end up being 1000000 gigs( hard to believe) but my computer crashed that instant so i went back into bios and set it back to normal, I just need someones help if they can help me to over clock my harddrive back to 80 instead of it being 31. but ya it can be overclocked but if not done completely right your computer wont be able to handle or even recognize it( from experience) but can someone please help me to over clock it the right way. I know the hard drive is a samsung and thats about it. my email is harbmaster2000@yahoo.com

Thats not overclocking, thats a damaged FAT or BIOS settings. You can write a table that says it has 1000000 gigs of space available, but it really does not have the space to do so. Thats like taking a 4 bedroom house and putting a sign out front saying it has 500,000 rooms in it or slapping a 500HP sticker on a Volvo.

To answer your questions, you need to use Disk Management or even FDISK to remove all the incorrect partitions on the drive, give it a new partition of 100% of the disk space, and then format it.

oh ya he is right, room temp is significant. my cpu runs at 36c to 38c at 70% to 90% load in the winter.
now in the summer or when it is hot in my room it will run at 40c to 44c at 70% to 90% load..
thats still "cool" only cose of the 4 80mm case fans.
but the point is that room temp matters, whats the point of slowing hot air to cool a cpu?
windchill dose not do the same on non-living things as it does to us or living things.

Simple answer thats been given already

No, You can NOT overclock your hard drive.

The hard drives have a specific rpm for a reason.
The platter(the part of the hard drive that stores the data) is
made out of aluminium/alloy or glass/ceramic composite.
So if the spindle(the part that holds the platter in place)
is rotating faster than it should be it will wobble.
In effect it will make the platter wobble and will
potentially crack and explode.