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You cant.

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Just now, youself said:

What are safe ways to overclock a HDD? My HDD is very slow.

There is no safe way to "overclock" an HDD. You'd have to increase the disks' rotation-speed in order to speed up an HDD, but a 5400RPM drive, for example, has not been designed to handle higher rotational speed, so you'd most likely just destroy the motors or cause read/write errors.

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Buying an ssd and installing your windows on that is the only way to overclock storage if you have an Hdd now.

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HDDs don't have clockspeed. So its factually impossible to overclock something without clockspeed. They spin in set rpm. Icreasing spin speed if drivers read-head doesn't support it will break the drive rather than make it faster. Just buy a new, faster drive.

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Which should be SSD. No matter how fast HDD you buy, it'll never be as fast as a mediocre SSD. There is price associated with SSD size though...

 

Depending on how big and old your HDD is, it's also possible to consider SSD caching. PrimoCache and something like 128GB SSD will set you back like 50-60 bucks for both. Which is a relatively small price that will turn your existing HDD into a much much much faster one with same capacity.

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Other than defragging, is there a way to make my Seagate 7200rpm HDD faster?
Thanks you for help.

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7 minutes ago, youself said:

Other than defragging, is there a way to make my Seagate 7200rpm HDD faster?

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4 minutes ago, minibois said:

As everyone said 3 weeks ago, no you cannot increase the speed of a hard drive. At least not without getting additional hardware (like an SSD).

you could slow the computer way down so it gives the placebo effect that the hdd is faster. lol

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Just get a cheap 120gb WD ssd (or simular), put your windows and most used programs on this ssd and your pc will be much snappier.

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4 minutes ago, emosun said:

you could slow the computer way down so it gives the placebo effect that the hdd is faster. lol

Or just split a couple atoms to hopefully create a tear in the fabric of our universe which might just make time speed up, so the PC feels faster.


But at that point, a cheap SSD might be a better choice.

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There is no such option to speed up HDD. In order to increase storage performance, consider going with SSD. It would be SATA, mSATA, M.2, NVMe SSD. Get one that fits your budget.

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6 hours ago, youself said:

Other than defragging, is there a way to make my Seagate 7200rpm HDD faster?
Thanks you for help.

There is no magical way to overclock an HDD. Defragging and/or clean reinstalling your OS only goes so far. After this, you'd replace it with an SSD.

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You could short-stroke it, but as said most any SSD will still beat it.

 

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