Hard Drive Overclocking

I am new to overclocking and I already have fast RAM and a fast CPU. I am waiting a lot on my HDD and I was wondering what nees to be done to overclock my HD and if you guys have any do's and don'ts. I know I can just google it, but I would rather have many peoples opinions.

I never heard of over-clocking a hard drive. They're limited by their rotation speed. Increasing that significantly, if it's possible, would probably generate too much heat or just render the drive unusable. Those are just guesses on my part but I'd say the best thing you could do is invest in a faster drive.

hardrives are mechanicle thus u cant overclock ... you can over clock any other peice of hard ware in your computer by increasing current and voltage. not a hard drive. jim is right get a western digital raptor

You best upgrade to SERIAL ATA drive that runs at 10,000rmp or RAID two hard drives.

:: points up :: the western digital raptor is sata and works at 10000 rpm

I have actually overclocked a harddrive by increasing the electromagnetic charge in the spinners and on the reader itself.

The result: The drive exploded and I got a nasty burn on my hand. Dont try this at home kids!!!!

Seriously though, I did wonder what spinning the drive faster than normal would do to it, so I did, and it shattered and shocked me like I said. Each drive is not only a prebuilt piece of hardware that MUST stay clean to function properly, but it is also very precise. Think about it. Putting 160 Gigs of info on one drive has gotta be precise, and being precise it requires very select physics and movements to operate. Perhaps in the future drives can be made faster by a user, but then, who would want to. They'll be fast enough.

I think the HD is the worst thing you need crashing or broken!

No kidding. If anythiong else fails, you can just transfer your HD over to another computer. If the HD itself fails or is blown out, your toast.

mmmm, toast.

Glad you said something. At the time I was writing that post I was, in fact, eating 4-5 pieces of toast all at once while periodically shoving crusts down my cats throat. It was G-R-E-A-T, great!

Hmm.....I thought I heard of it before......

Why do they have HDD coolers then??? Don't HDD's work without needing that kind of stuff?

Some overlockers are misguided fools or its to make the harddrive last longer cos we all know that changes in temperature cuase metal to expand (plastic to contract). The less temperature changes the longer it should last.

they have harddrive coolers because you need them for the 10,000 rpm harddrive.... at that speed in a high temperature room they will not last long.

Surely HD coolers had be available before 10,000rpm drives? And if 10,000rpm needed a cooler they would come with one. Room temperature should be insignificant.

I can understand what you said about it not making sense, but dont think that room temperature is insignificant. In my old house(that had no A/C) I would overclock the processor by 150 during the winter, but during the summer by only about 50. Room temperature can have a great deal to do with the cooling needed for any system, including a HD>