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!"

Comments

Re:First Post

[wizzy403]

Someone let the white smoke out...

An hour?

[hawguy]

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.

Re:An hour?

[Dunbal]

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

Re:An hour?

[0123456]

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.

Re:An hour?

[jamesh]

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.

Hmm...

[screwzloos]

I don't get it. 500GB in an hour would be about 140MB per second (yes, I am rounding up). Most of the enterprise level 15K drives are right in that range without any overclocking, with a couple well above that. Do I win ten grand for buying a Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 for $450 and bringing it in to show that it works?

http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/enterprise-hard-drive-charts-2010/Throughput-Read-Average,2156.html

No, I didn't look at the page. It's Slashdotted.

Re:Hmm...

[a_nonamiss]

Is that 15k RPM drive a "Western Digital Caviar Black 3.5" SATA 500GB hard drive (WD5002AALX)." It's stated pretty clearly in the rules that it needs to be that model. I don't think they're going for a speed test here, because there are plenty of SSDs that blow that speed away. They're trying to take a "normal" drive and super-speed it, for forensic purposes.

Done already!

[allanw]

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

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.

Re:Fizzzzzzttt

[blair1q]

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."

do not do this

[JonySuede]

This is an attempt by a forensic company to crowd-source the development of a product on the cheap. I you can do this, you can make a fortune selling to the different LEAs around the world. But please don't do it, we do not need more efficient spooks.

Re:First Post

[eharvill]

We have a new pope already??