My laptop is sluggish, and I was wondering if one could improve the system performance by overclocking the hard drive. How high (RPM) have you guys been able to get a regular 5400RPM drive without data loss? Would a 5400 have more headroom than a 7200? Also, do they have hard drives with unlocked multipliers?

I'm kind of new to this, so any help would be appreciated.

Kman

As far as i know, you can't "OC" a hard drive.

LOL

Uhhhhhhh huh have you looked into wiping your laptop and doing a reinstall without all that bloatware? and upgrate the memory etc? And dont expect much from a celeron/semperon etc.

You cant ove....... yes.. you can overclock a hdd, just run FDisk and let it.. do its work

What Laptop? What spec? How much memory? What OS? If it's a Sony with Vista and 1 Gb RAM, it's loaded with loads of fancy unneeded items at startup. Clear them all out and you will see a big difference. Download HDRune to check your HD performance.

Mike.

You can't overclock a drive...and most laptop drives are 4200 rpm and or low power and that equals SLOOOOOOOOW. You can either reformat to clear off junk, replace the drive with a faster model, or live with it.

You may want to explain what wiping is to this guy before he gets out the Windex!

He means reformating the hard drive and loading just the OS (Operating System)....Of course I'd be surprised if you even have an OS Disk....Most laptops have or have you make a recovery disk(s). Which wouldn't help because you'd be re-installing the "bloatware".

Being new to this as you say.....maybe you have friend or someone who can help you out that is near by, before you try anything before you know what you're doing......I'd hate for you to read these posts and start attempting anything on your own. Because asking if you can over clock a HDD pretty much tells everyone you're a noob without having to say...."I'm new at this". I'm not dogging you for being a noob...we all had to start somewhere. Being interested in this stuff is cool, and over time you'll learn more.

I would recommend uninstalling programs you don't use, but then I take it back...because I'm afraid you'll remove somthing you really need. Do lots more research! Good luck!

uhhh..........try disk clean up and defrag it a couple of times

*cough* troll

Sounds like you have either an ID10T error or PLBKC error. I would overclock the Laptop with a Timex Sequence using a flux compacitor in engaged the overdrive timing.

I have to agree on that.

Assuming this is not an obvious troll attempt by the OP,

Keeping the drives defragmented with a defragger like Diskeeper is the closest you can come to overclocking your drive LOL. Actually, one of the higher end Diskeeper versions shuffles files around to the fastest portion of the platter to accelerate file access..that would be the only 'OC'ing possible.

Otherwise you can go the 'SLi' route, and RAID 0 a couple of raptors lol.

This was a great way to start my day Thank you.