Toshiba Hitachi DT01ACA300 Data Recovery

Zero Alpha offers professional data recovery for Toshiba Hitachi DT01ACA300. This 3TB desktop hard drive is commonly used for personal and business storage needs. Users may face issues such as firmware failure, bad sectors, or PCB damage, which can cause data loss. We accept mail in jobs from any location.

This hard drive is made by Hitachi

In 2012, Toshiba Corporation faced a shortage of hard disk drives (HDDs) due to the severe flooding in Thailand. As a result, Toshiba resorted to relabeling HDDs made by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), which was acquired by Western Digital Corporation in 2012.

Toshiba's relabeling of HGST hard drives caused controversy and raised questions about the reliability and performance of the relabeled drives. This article aims to provide some insights into the process and implications of Toshiba's relabeling of HGST hard drives.

Background

In October 2011, flooding in Thailand affected several hard disk drive factories, including Toshiba's and HGST's. This resulted in a global shortage of HDDs and a spike in prices. In response, Toshiba decided to source HDDs from HGST and relabel them as Toshiba HDDs to meet the market demand.

Toshiba's relabeling of HGST HDDs was not an uncommon practice in the HDD industry. Many HDD manufacturers, including Seagate and Western Digital, also sourced HDDs from other manufacturers and relabeled them as their own.

Relabeling Process

Toshiba's relabeling process involved removing the HGST label from the HDDs and replacing it with a Toshiba label. The relabeled HDDs were then sold to customers as Toshiba-branded products.

The relabeling process did not involve any changes to the physical or technical specifications of the HGST HDDs. The only difference was the label on the HDDs.

Implications

Toshiba's relabeling of HGST HDDs had several implications for the HDD market and customers.

Toshiba Hitachi DT01ACA300 Common Problems

• Firmware corruption causing drive not to initialize
• Bad sectors leading to unreadable files
• PCB damage or electronic failure
• Clicking or beeping sounds due to head failure
• Drive not detected in BIOS or operating system

Toshiba Hitachi DT01ACA300 Models

• DT01ACA300-7200RPM-SATA
• DT01ACA300-68K4H1
• DT01ACA300-68M3V1

Toshiba DT01ACA300 Data Recovery Caselog

20Sep24: Even though it says Toshiba its just a relabeled hitachi hard drive and Zero Alpha needs to use hitachi tools to recover data from it. This hard drive had its Head 1 fail out of 6 heads in total

Model : Hitachi HDS723030BLE640
Serial : MSH9215Q043E9W
Firmware : MX6OAAB0
Capacity : 3 TB (5 860 533 168)

ID.Model................................ : Hitachi HDS723030BLE640
ID.FW................................... : MX6OAAB0
ID.SN................................... : MSH9215Q043E9W

PC3000  family by model................. : 7230BLA3
Factory family by model................. : MARS.......................... = 7210DLE6
Factory family by FW.................... : MARS.......................... = 7210DLE6
Factory family by SN.................... : MARS.......................... = 7210DLE6

NVRAM SN................................ : MSH9215Q043E9W
NVRAM FW................................ : MX6N

Factory family by NVRAM FW.............. : MARS.......................... = 7210DLE6
Factory family by NVRAM SN.............. : MARS.......................... = 7210DLE6
 
 
Selected family......................... : 7210DLE6
Model by ID............................. : Hitachi HDS723030BLE640                 
 
Techno mode key......................... : Ok
 
Loading modules table................................................. : Ok
Loading the table of "open" modules................................... : Ok
Drive power supply...................... : OFF

Clicking Toshiba DT01ACA300 Hard Drive Data Recovery Caselog

24Sep25: A Customer mailed in this hard drive for data recovery. The hard drive is badly clicking.