Are Hard Drives affected by increasing the front side bus speed?
Sometimes – yes. Increasing front side bus speeds to 75 MHz or 83.3 MHz can greatly improve system performance, but remember that the IDE controller is accessed through the PCI bus and is also affected by the front side buys speed, just like PCI cards. Older drives may cause data corruption when the PCI speed is raised to 41.7 MHz. If your hard drive is affected by high bus speeds and you are determined to run your system at higher speeds, a hard drive cooling arrangement may allow a finicky hard drive to work.
