Hard Drive Overclocking Competition From Secau

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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Re:Is that all?

[a_nonamiss]

According to the rules, it needs to be reversible. They mention forensics, so maybe they're trying to do it undetected. At any rate, I'm pretty sure cracking the seal on the hard drive is verboten.