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Supported Drives

Atola Insight supports all 1.8-inch, 2.5-inch, 3.5-inch IDE and SATA hard drives.

Most functions of the Atola Insight will work on any hard drive or flash card with either IDE or SATA-1/2/3 interface (including those attached via adapters).

However, there are three functions that do not work with certain hard drive models:

  • Automatic password removal
  • Full firmware access
  • Automatic firmware recovery

Automatic password removal works for the following models:

  • All Seagate hard drives except 7200.11 models (and newer) - we are currently working on these
  • All Toshiba hard drives
  • All Western Digital hard drives
  • All Maxtor hard drives except STM series (STM models are actually Seagate hard drives)
  • All Samsung hard drives with the exception of old hard drives made prior to 2004 and some latest
  • All Fujitsu hard drives with the exception of latest models (MHW and newer)
  • The following Hitachi Travelstar hard drives are supported: IC25NxxxATMRxx, HTxxxxxxxM9ATxx, HTxxxxxxxG9ATxx, HTxxxxxxxG9SAxx, HTxxxxxxxH9ATxx, HTxxxxxxxH9SAxx, HTxxxxxxxJ9ATxx, HTxxxxxxxJ9SAxx, HTxxxxxxxK9ATxx, HTxxxxxxxK9SAxx, HTxxxxxxxL9SAxx, HTxxxxxxxB9A3xx.
  • The following Hitachi DK hard drives are supported: DK23DA, DK23EA, DK23FA. Support for these drives added in version 1.4.5.
  • The following Hitachi Endurastar hard drives are supported: J4K50 (HEJxxxxxxF9ATxx), N4K50 (HENxxxxxxF9ATxx).

Full firmware access:

  • Fujitsu hard drives: all models are supported
  • Samsung hard drives: all models are supported with the exception of old hard drives made prior to 2004
  • Maxtor hard drives: all models are supported except STM series (STM models are actually Seagate hard drives)
  • Western Digital hard drives: all models are supported
  • The following Hitachi hard drives are supported: ATMR, M9AT, G9AT, G9SA, H9AT, H9SA, J9AT, J9SA, K9AT, K9SA, L9SA, B9A3, PLA3, PLAT, ATCS, DLA3, DLAT, VLAT, DTLA, AVER, AVVA, AVVN, AVV2, ATDA, DPTA, DADA, DARA, DBCA, DCXA, DHEA, DTTA, DJNA, DJSA, DKLA, DTCA
  • Toshiba: only automatic firmware recovery is possible

Automatic firmware recovery works for the following models:

  • All Toshiba hard drives
  • Most Fujitsu hard drives
  • "Pre-Marvell" Western Digital drives (based on a WD CPU)