Quick question about locked sata ports

[skinnypotbelly]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I haven't been able to find the answer. I've been reading that some boards have sata ports 1, 2 unlocked while ports 3,4 are locked. My question is, if I overclock and have a hard drive on sata port 1 or 2 will it get corrupted? Is there anyway around that? I have 3 hard drives and was thinking about putting my media hard drive on sata port 1.

 

[DougLite]

Corruption is indeed a possibility on "unlocked" SATA ports. Such corruption is almost always caused by sky-high (250+) bus frequencies, but there's no magic threshold that automatically induces corrutption on every board. Providing additional cooling for your motherboard's southbridge (MCP on NV chipsets) may also raise that ceiling,

Provided that your motherboard has a working AGP/PCI lock, a cheapie PCI to SATA card will also work around this problem.

 

[skinnypotbelly]

Thanks for the reply. About that pci sata card...would it be of any benefit to get a sata 300 card? Are there any brandnames that you would suggest? Thanks