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Bad capacitors are causing issues for countless technological items built throughout the last century and into the early-mid 2000’s. Unfortunately, hard drives aren’t spared from this tragic scenario. Below are a few examples of this particular issue, plaguing Toshiba hard drives from the early 90’s in particular. Capacitor leakage on the majority of these drives ... Read More

Disclaimer: The following information was collected & publicised based on strenuous research of Toshiba’s disk drive identification formats from models produced prior to 1996. This table does not reflect current Toshiba model identification, nor drives produced past 1996 with this model layout. The table below is not supported by any official Toshiba documentation, as this ... Read More

Hitachi’s model numbers for their disk drive division have been renowned for being reasonably well structured in the modern era, however when looking back at their pre-IBM merger days, the story is quite a bit different. After changing their long traditional label format, things became a lot clearer, but this means that drives manufactured by ... Read More