Competition for overclocking HDD, prize $ 10,000

Many of us are involved in overclocking CPU and GPU. The ability to squeeze additional power from the processor attracts any geek. Have you ever tried to overclock the HDD? For example, in any modern hard drive there is a noise / speed setting that defaults to a minimum. For me personally, knowledge of the "overclocking" of hard drives is limited to this. But experts from the Secau research center, obviously, know about overclocking more than mine. They set a goal to maximize the speed of reading data from standard hard drives and promise to pay a prize of $ 10,000 to those who can read HDD 500 GB in less than an hour, that is, at speeds of more than 132 MB / s.

Western Digital Caviar Black 3.5 "SATA 500 GB (WD5002AALX) is taken as a reference copy, for which, according to the specifications, the total reading time is approximately two hours.

Under the terms of the competition, the HDD modification should be reversible and the disk itself should not be damaged. It is possible to connect the HDD to a third-party device, replace the firmware, increase the voltage, etc. The deadline for submitting applications for participation in the competition is September 1, 2011.

The competition organizers also explain that they are interested in any decisions on overclocking, even if the result is more than 1 hour. The winner in any case will receive a promotional prize of $ 5000.
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If you look at this competition through the eyes of a businessman, the company is trying to crowdsource the technical solution and buy it cheaply. After that, she can sell the decision to manufacturers at a price that is measured not by thousands, but by millions of dollars. Smart approach, what can I say.