Australian Enthusiasts Wiki:Manual of Style/Hard drive product families

This is the recommended style guide to follow when creating hard drive product family articles, for example, Toshiba P300.

Title

The article title should be the manufacturer, followed by the official title of the family. Be as specific as possible; a full Seagate Barracuda article isn't warranted, but a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 one is.

If a more specific family name is not available, yet many prior families exist, try prepending a distinguishing feature or platform codename in brackets. For example, Seagate Pipeline HD (Advanced Format) or Seagate Momentus (Cameron).

Good	Bad	Explanation
Seagate Momentus (Cameron)	Seagate Momentus	Too vague; there are many Seagate Momentus families.
	Seagate Momentus 5400.7	While a catchy name, it is not an official one. Try to avoid unofficial names unless there really isn't a better choice, and even then, it must be in brackets as a disambiguator.
IBM Deskstar 75GXP	IBM Deskstar	Too vague; there are many IBM Deskstar drives, as well as Hitachi made ones.
	IBM Deathstar	Again, an unofficial name.

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 a member 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 mechanically related family.

History

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