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Question Toshiba hdd is actually Seagate?

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amron

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I got an hdd with Toshiba label on it - model DT01ACA050. to my surprise, when I connected it, it was identified on the bios as Seagate Barracuda ST3500320AS. is there a logic explanation to it?
 
No explanation for it other than some third party shenanigans of some kind. OR you looking at the WRONG drive in whatever interface or utility being used to ID the drive model. This has happened to me in Crystal Disk Mark or Crystal Disk Info before.
 
fzabkar said:
Show us the label and PCB. Also show us a SMART report.

https://www.reddit.com/r/datarecoverysoftware/wiki/index/smart/

In reality, a Toshiba DT01ACA050 is actually a rebadged HGST HDD.

The PCB should look like this:

https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/yhst-1...-1tb-3-5-sata-hitachi-circuit-board-fw-15.gif

https://s.turbifycdn.com/aah/yhst-14437584971410/91711039-19.gif
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I took pictures of the label (the hand writing is the data that I've copied from the pc's bios) and the pcb. I hope that it will help to shed some light. I'm well aware that the hdd is not exactly the crown jewels, I'm just curious.hdd1[1].jpg
 

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Toshiba acquired some of Hitachi's 3.5-inch hard disk drive division in 2012

"To satisfy antitrust regulators, Western Digital then sold some of its 3.5-inch HDD manufacturing assets and intellectual property to Toshiba. This allowed Toshiba to enter the 3.5-inch HDD market for desktop and consumer applications."

there has been a lot of back and forth funny business between seagate, ibm, hitachi, seagate, toshiba over the years.

I really don't know. Could be counterfeit/relabeled. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...d-criminals-writes-while-they-spill-the-beans
 
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@amron What does a disk utility (e.g. CrystalDiskInfo) think the SATA interface speed is for your HDD? Because the label says 6Gbps and the Seagate drive specs say 3Gbps.
 
mikeymikec said:
There's old in the sense that this was meant to be a new product, and old in the sense that we know it's old and treat it accordingly 🙂 I have a bunch of old HDDs acting as extra backups / Blu-Ray raw data rips.
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I have a stack of about ten HDDs on my desk next to a sata/usb caddy. I'm not sure what to use them for tbh. They were handy when I migrated to Linux and wanted to convert my internal storage to EXT4 and needed to shuffle data around but sooooooo sllllooooowwwwww.
 
WelshBloke said:
I have a stack of about ten HDDs on my desk next to a sata/usb caddy. I'm not sure what to use them for tbh. They were handy when I migrated to Linux and wanted to convert my internal storage to EXT4 and needed to shuffle data around but sooooooo sllllooooowwwwww.
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Take them apart and extract the magnets
 
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Not sure it is the oldest drive in my possession. Extremely annoyed I lost my RAMAC platter when I moved in 2011.
 
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I have a 5 bay hot swap sata caddy and an internal blueray drive and id love a way of making them into a USB4 storage thing.
Would need a 6 port sata to usb card adapter and a case to put them in. I'm not sure that something like that exists that doesnt cost a fortune though.
 
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