Can overclocking damage SATA Hard Drives??????

[zeroprobe]

Is there anyway hard drives can become damaged from overclocking?

 

[link75]

Nope!!

 

[waylander]

Heat can damage HDDs so check the case temperature and your HDD temperature.

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

If the SATA bus gets too far out of spec then the data written to the HDD may become corrupt, but it won't damage the HDD itself, just the data.

 

[RichPLS]

Don't you lock the PCI bus and PCI bus SATA controllers are not overclocked when the CPU is, thus they run stock speed

 

[Sparticus]

What are the benifits for OC'ing the PCI-E bus and SATA bus anyways? Bragging rights? Sorry I just don't know why they have those options to begin with .

 

[TabrisDarkPeace]

It will only cause instability in 70% of cases.

However in the remaining 30% of cases it may work fine, and actually be required for stability (the PCI bus is [ratio] sync'd to the other buses, and only slightly out of spec).

That's why they have the option to do it.

 

[fainis]

no you can not damage the sata drive when you oc....the worst scenario it won`t boot......when you oc lock the sata clock

 

[mesarectifier]

If you want to brag then go ahead and OC your SATA....but SATA is plenty fast enough as it is, especially if you use something like a Raptor. OC'ing SATA is totally pointless.

 

[xxeddydxx]

MAYBE thats y i killed my hard drive LOL. I dont think i locked my pci or whatever its called an i overclocked, and my SATA hard drive showed errors when i booted it up. Cyber power is gonna replace my hard drive though.
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