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Compatibility Summary
Hitachi 6Gb/s SATA hard drives
Deskstar 7K3000 Deskstar 5K3000
HDS723030ALA640 HDS5C3030ALA630
HDS723020BLA642 HDS5C3020ALA632
HDS723015BLA642 HDS5C3015ALA632
Compatibility Testing
The Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Integration Lab tested this family of
DeskstarTM drives for compatibility with a
wide variety of systems and operating
systems. Systems and Motherboards
Testing was performed to demonstrate These Deskstar products were found to work
compatibility with the following hardware with the following systems. (Please note:
and software. Other combinations of Use of an EFI BIOS is required in order to
hardware and software are expected to use a 3TB hard drive as a boot drive)
function with this product family, but have
not been evaluated. This compatibility ACER Aspire M5100 & X1200
testing confirms simply that the hard drive ACER Veriton: M261, M460, & M661
was recognized, partitioned and then data Apple iMac 10
was written to and read from it. Drive ASUS 790i Striker II NSE
capacity and interface speed are not verified ASUS M3N72-D
during compatibility testing. ASUS M4A89GTD PRO
ASUS P5LD2
Many factors must be considered in order to ASUS P5N-E SLI
take advantage of high-capacity drives ASUS P5N7A VM
(>2.2TB). Some configurations offer a ASUS P7Q57-M DO
higher likelihood of success. If you want to ASUS X58 Rampage III Gene
use a high-capacity drive, please refer to BIOSTAR TForce TA720GX A2+6.x
our High Capacity Technology Brief and BIOSTAR TForce TA790GX X-fire A2+5.x
visit our Above 2TB web page BIOSTAR TForce TF720
at http://www.hitachigst.com/internal- BIOSTAR TForce TP45HP P45 X-fire
drives/above-2tb Dell Dimension E521
Dell Vostro V420
Hitachi recommends you back up all data EVGA nForce 790i SLI FTW
before installing your new hard drive. Gateway DX4200-UB001A
Gateway DX4320-09
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Deskstar 7K3000 Compatibility Guide Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Systems and Motherboards (cont'd) HighPoint RocketRAID 230x & 2310
LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260
Gateway DX4710-05 Promise FastTrak SX4100
Gateway FX6800-01e Promise FastTrak TX2300
Gateway FX6840-21 Promise FastTrak TX4300 & TX4302
Gigbyte 890FXA