According to a poster on slickedeals.net, the drive inside Toshiba 5TB external (HDWC250XK3J1) is ..
Form Factor: 3.5"
Brand: Toshiba
Model: MD04ACA500
MPN: HDETR10GEA51
Storage Capacity: 5 TB
Interface: SATA III
Rotation Speed: 7200 RPM
Cache:...
Via chinabyte.com & google translate
Google Translate
If the engrish translation is accurate it appears that a HGST 5TB 5K5000 product may be on the horizon soon.
Toshiba may also be taking up product differentiation strategies similar to WDC.
HGST
Toshiba
Small update
RE: Toshiba 3.5" retail kits for low power variants (DT01ABA100, DT01ABA200, DT01ABA300)
Toshiba recently introduced the DT series, packaging 3.5" low power drives in Europe. This is good news for enthusiasts which would prefer an alternative option for low cost, lower power...
Thanks for the link.
One small note. The download button on that page appears broken or time limited by the db parameter "tempcode", which appears to have passed a specified time limit
https://apps.tourocloudbackup.com/api/file/geta?resume=1&sharecode=GTFS3RZ6&mute=1&tempcode=364446653...
Good deal for Canadians this weekend - 3TB, web only price of $128.99 at NCIX
# Toshiba 3TB 7200RPM DT01ACA300 (HDKPC08) - 2 year warranty - $128.99
http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=77086&manufacture=Toshiba&promoid=1382
Pricing and availability
Toshiba's new 7200rpm models have been available in Japan and parts of Europe for months now. No sign of the low power reduced rpm models yet. Some retailers in North America seem to have stock, but still no availability by Newegg or Amazon.
# Toshiba 3TB 7200RPM...
Glad you were able to solve your issue. That's interesting you were able to downgrade. I'd been told previously on more than one occasion by support that version control prevents downgrading on Hitachi products. I'd never personally tried to downgrade firmware on consumer grade or enterprise...
EDIT: Kryptex made an interesting reply re: firmware version. You might want to call Hitachi first to find out if FW A10 was released after FW 800.
EDIT2: it appears downgrades may be possible, at least on enterprise products. (TerroristTate reply)
Ignore using Hitachi Hi-Test (windows...
He should have been talking to Adrian at this point. Adrian has up/down approval on releasing firmware tools and/or retrieving DOS tools which still may be marked as internal. If a DOS tool is marked internal he has the ability to contact manufacturing (software engineering, etc) to seek approval.
If it hasn't already I'd recommend asking for your ticket to be escalated to Adrian Cutler. Your ticket should have been closed by now with the issue resolved. At this point you might want to increase the frequency of your call backs to 1 a day until the issue is resolved by lower level support...
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