Hard Drive Overclocking Competition From Secau 162
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!"
Re:First Post (Score:5, Funny)
Someone let the white smoke out...
Perhaps instead of such a large prize... (Score:3, Funny)
They should have considered spending some of it to upgrade their hosting.
An hour? (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.
Re:An hour? (Score:5, Funny)
Done already! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:An hour? (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.
Re:Fizzzzzzttt (Score:5, 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."
Re:First Post (Score:5, Funny)