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Hard Drive Overclocking Competition From Secau

Posted by timothy on from the spit-it-out dept.

Blittzed writes "We were reminiscing about the good old days of overclocking CPUs and memory, and the subject of hard drive overcloking came up. The discussion / argument we were having in the research lab ended up in a bet which now has to be settled. So, we are putting our money where our mouth is, and putting up $10,000 to anyone who can read a 500GB drive in under an hour. We will also consider other attempts with a smaller amount of money in the event that the one hour is not possible. There are a few rules (e.g. the drive still needs to work afterwards), but otherwise nothing is ruled out. Specific details can be found on the URL. Go let the white smoke out!"

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  1. Re:First Post by wizzy403 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone let the white smoke out...

  2. Perhaps instead of such a large prize... by Aranykai · · Score: 2, Funny

    They should have considered spending some of it to upgrade their hosting.

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  3. An hour? by hawguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    An hour!? I have a 500GB drive on my desk and I can read it in under a minute! The first line says: "Seagate Barracua 7200.11 500 Gbytes" The entire label has only a few dozen words and serial numbers.

    1. Re:An hour? by Dunbal · · Score: 4, Funny

      With a Seagate Barracuda I think the challenge is getting the thing to actually run for over a minute.

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    2. Re:An hour? by jamesh · · Score: 5, Funny

      With a Seagate Barracuda I think the challenge is getting the thing to actually run for over a minute.

      I just ran smartcl here and the two Seagate Barracudas in this machine have each been running for 29,908 hours.

      I see what you're saying... even the SMART data is corrupt.

  4. Done already! by allanw · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.afrotechmods.com/hdoc.htm

  5. Re:Fizzzzzzttt by blair1q · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe that's what they mean.

    "If you can get anything off our 500 GB drive in the next hour, we'll give you $10K."

  6. Re:First Post by eharvill · · Score: 4, Funny

    We have a new pope already??

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