Australian Enthusiasts Wiki:Manual of Style/Hard drive models

This is the recommended style guide to follow when creating hard drive articles, for example, TOSHIBA HDWD240.

Title

The article title should be the full ATA_IDENTIFY name of the drive. For example, TOSHIBA HDWD240 and not Toshiba HDWD240 (non all-caps "Toshiba"). Even though AEW does not normally use all-caps stylisations of trademarks, this rule overrides that as the all-caps title is an official reported title by drives themselves. Western Digital drive models should have the identifier code in the title, with the two digit customer code in the start of the identifier and the revision final digit replaced with lowercase x's. For example, WDC WD80EDAZ-xxTA3Ax, and not WD80EDAZ or WDC WD80EDAZ-11TA3A0. For Seagates, do not leave out the part number that is reported in BIOS. That is, specify it how the drive does. For example, the ST1000DM010 in this image has a P/N of 2EP102-501. The article title, then, would be ST1000DM010-2EP102, since the digits after the dash in the P/N are not reported in BIOS.

Even if a title below is disallowed, in the majority of cases redirects or disambiguation pages are still fine, as redirects are cheap, and disambiguation pages aid search. If a bad article title is blue linked, that's because it's a redirect or a disambiguation page, not a full article (which the bad title redirect points to). Never, under any circumstances, is a bad title suitable for a full article (not just a redirect).

Good	Bad	Explanation
TOSHIBA HDWD260	Toshiba HDWD260	The SMART report specifies an all-caps TOSHIBA, so that name must be used, even though it would otherwise be in violation of AEW:MOSTM.
	TOSHIBA HDWD260UZSVA	The UZSVA part of the model number quoted on the Toshiba website is only used for packaging purposes and is not otherwise part of the model number. Watch out for this when titling Toshiba retail hard drive models, since the majority of retail listings for these drives will add such a string like "EZSTA", "XZSTA" and "UZSVA" to the end; always go by how it reports to BIOS.
WDC WD80EDAZ-xxTA3Ax	WD80EDAZ	This title is missing the identifier code. The identifier can signal a different family and therefore different properties, which can range from minor to game changing.
	WDC WD80EDAZ-11TA3A0	Customer code and revision has not been stripped out. However, this would be an acceptable redirect, since this is a common drive model that the majority of units of this model carry.
WDC WD30EZRZ-xxZ5HBx	WD30EZRZ	This title is missing the identifier code. The identifier can signal a different family and therefore different properties, which can range from minor to game changing. In this case, without this code, this drive model could be confused with the similar WDC WD30EZRZ-xxGXCBx, which is part of a different Marvell family and has different density.
ST1000DM010-2EP102	ST1000DM010	This title is missing the part number code. Although rarer than WDs since Seagate rarely changes the part number without also changing the main model number, the part number occasionally signals a different family. In this case, without this code, this drive model could be confused with the similar ST1000DM010-2DM162, which is part of a different family and changes some traits such as adding ramp loading.
	ST1000DM010-2EP102-501	The "-501" part of the part number is not reported in BIOS, and therefore does not form part of the actual model number.
ST3160023AS	ST3160023AS-9W2814	However, this logic does not apply to Seagates that use the old model number scheme. These Seagates do not report the P/N when ID'ing themselves, so don't put it in the title.
TOSHIBA DT01ACA100	TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 LENOVO	Lenovo configurations add "LENOVO" to the very end of the drive's reported model number. However, obviously, the majority of DT01ACA100s do not do this, so the majority rules.
Hitachi HTS545016B9A300	HITACHI HTS545016B9A300	The all-caps HITACHI is only seen on certain OEM configurations. The majority of models report a standard case Hitachi, so the majority wins.
	HTS545016B9A300	Model numbers without the manufacturer's name also in the title are rare. In this case, it is partially justified as, like the above case, certain OEM configurations drop the "Hitachi" from the reported model number. However, since the majority of units do report it with "Hitachi" in the name, again, majority rules.
WDC WD10EADS-xxM2Bx	WDC WD10EADS-11M2B2	In this case, the customer code and configuration do actually change the drive slightly (adding Advanced Format). However, this is still better explained in the article itself.
WDC WD10EZEX-xxWN4Ax	WDC WD10EZEX	This title is missing the identifier code. There are loads of WDC WD10EZEX's around, and all of them belong to a slightly different Marvell family (either Tresselb, Tressels or TresXLB2), which would make them incompatible with each other.
TOSHIBA MQ04ABB400	TOSHIBAExternal USB 3.0	Most USB-SATA bridges used in these drives will report a bogus name in various locations such as Windows' Task Manager and Device Manager that has no bearing on the drive within whatsoever. Use only the model number found in a proper SMART checking tool such as CrystalDiskInfo.
WDC WD40NMZW-xxGX6Sx	WDBJRT0040BBK-0A	Similarly, the model numbers found on the box and case of external hard drives, such as the Bad column entry here for a Western Digital 4 TB Elements SE drive, are next to useless, since they often have little bearing on the drive inside and behave in unexpected ways. Again, use only the model number in CrystalDiskInfo or similar.

Infobox

As with the majority of articles, hard drive models should include an infobox that specify key details such as spindle speed, capacity and form factor. For more information, see Template:Infobox hard drive. If you have them, please upload two images; an image of the drive's entire top label (give priority to images with uncensored serial numbers), and a screenshot of a hard drive SMART attribute viewer such as CrystalDiskInfo with all SMART attributes visible (please drag down the box to expand your CDI view, for example).

If images of a specific hard drive model are not available, then please use images from a model in the same family. For example, for a period of time images for TOSHIBA HDWD260 were not available, so images from TOSHIBA HDWD240 were borrowed instead. Similarly, no WDC WD30EFRX-xxEUZNx photos are available on this wiki, so placeholders from WDC WD30EZRZ-xxZ5HBx were borrowed instead, as it is a model in the same Marvell family. Ensure that the caption shows the model number of the substitute model, and contains the word "similar" or its synonyms, so the reader knows that the image is not of the real model. Please replace them with real model images as soon as they are available, and if you own the drive in question, of course feel free to upload your photos to replace the placeholders.

History

If warranted, write a subsection detailing the drive model's history, including what it replaced and its discontinuation, if applicable.

SMART attributes

A table should be included that specifies SMART attributes typically reported by the drive. Use the {{SMART attributes}} or {{Smartattr}} templates for this. For example, the vast majority of Toshiba drives use the following code to render their SMART attributes.

{{smartattr
|0x01 = Read Error Rate
|0x02 = Throughput Performance
|0x03 = Spin-Up Time
|0x04 = Start/Stop Count
|0x05 = Reallocated Sectors Count
|0x07 = Seek Error Rate
|0x08 = Seek Time Performance
|0x09 = Power-On Hours
|0x0A = Spin Retry Count
|0x0C = Power Cycle Count
|0xBF = G-Sense Error Rate
|0xC0 = Power-off Retract Count
|0xC1 = Load/Unload Cycle Count
|0xC2 = Temperature (Max/Min/Current)
|0xC4 = Reallocation Event Count
|0xC5 = Current Pending Sector Count
|0xC6 = Uncorrectable Sector Count
|0xC7 = UltraDMA CRC Error Count
|0xDC = Disk Shift
|0xDE = Loaded Hours
|0xDF = Load/Unload Retry Count
|0xE0 = Load Friction
|0xE2 = Load 'In'-time
|0xF0 = Transfer Error Rate?
}}