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HDD Overclocking?

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by oddish, Apr 28, 2006.

  1. oddish

    oddish Regular member

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    hi
    i have an maxtor 6 l160p0 hdd in an external freecom casing
    is it possible to overclock it?
     
    oddish, Apr 28, 2006
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    haimback Regular member

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    hi,

    in a word..no

    The speed of the hdd is the actual RPM that the disc spins at, you can make it go any faster than it is.

    when talking of overclocking a processor its a software 'overclock' ie more instructions are handled per second, you dont pyhsically speed anything up.
     
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  3. oddish

    oddish Regular member

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    ok

    i heard that you can overclock cpu,gpu and other things but i thought
    why not an hdd?

     
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