Named a way to overclock an SSD drive

Modern SSD drives can be overclocked and speed up their performance. TechSpot reports this.

Media journalists drew attention to the video published on Gabriel Ferraz’s YouTube channel. The user managed to overclock the frequency of his SSD, thanks to which the drive began to work faster, but also began to consume more electricity. Ferraza called his overclocking method a little risky.

The blogger used a 2.5-inch SATA RZX drive with a capacity of 240 gigabytes based on a Silicon Motion SM2259XT controller, which has read and write speeds of up to 540 and 450 megabytes per second, respectively. The author used a SATA-USB 3.0 adapter and third-party software SMI Mass Production Tool.

In the end, the enthusiast managed to improve the characteristics of the SSD – in particular, the disk controller began to operate at a frequency of 500 megahertz. The growth was 17.6 percent; according to the blogger, SSD performance has increased noticeably. However, energy consumption has also increased – almost doubling.

“As appealing as it may be to get the most performance out of your hardware, overclocking an SSD isn’t worth the effort for most,” the TechSpot authors noted. According to them, after overclocking the drive may break and lose all data.

In December, TrendForce analysts predicted an increase in the price of solid-state drives on the market. The report’s authors noted that the price increase was driven by the interests of SSD manufacturers to return to profitability.