Hello,

Apr 25, 2017 - I bought a 4tb hgst deskstar nas drive from newegg about a year ago. Hgst website and try to run my serial number and it's showing invalid.

I recently bought a drive from OWC (Other World Computing) and already this follows:

1. Western Digital provides data storage solutions, including systems, HDD, Flash SSD, memory and personal data solutions to help customers capture and preserve their most valued data.
2. Enter your serial and model number below to verify the terms, status, repair options, and expiration date of your standard limited warranty or Toshiba services warranty upgrade or extension. All other Toshiba products and accessories are included in the section titled Toshiba's Standard Limited Warranty Documents below.

smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0] (local build)

Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

START OF INFORMATION SECTION

Model Family: HGST Travelstar 7K1000

Device Model: HGST HTS721010A9E630

Serial Number: JR10006PGXWHBE

LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 6accd219b

Firmware Version: JB0OA3J0

User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]

Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical

Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm

Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]

ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 6

SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)

Local Time is: Sat Oct 11 17:59:57 2014 PDT

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.

SMART support is: Enabled

START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION

SMART Enabled.

START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:

Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity

was never started.

Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.

Self-test execution status: ( 245) Self-test routine in progress...

50% of test remaining.

Total time to complete Offline

data collection: ( 45) seconds.

Offline data collection

capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.

Auto Offline data collection on/off support.

Suspend Offline collection upon new

command.

Offline surface scan supported.

Self-test supported.

No Conveyance Self-test supported.

Selective Self-test supported.

SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering

power-saving mode.

Supports SMART auto save timer.

Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.

General Purpose Logging supported.

Short self-test routine

recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.

Extended self-test routine

recommended polling time: ( 165) minutes.

SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported.

SCT Error Recovery Control supported.

SCT Feature Control supported.

SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE

1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 062 Pre-fail Always - 0

2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 040 Pre-fail Offline - 0

3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 165 165 033 Pre-fail Always - 0

Hitachi Serial Number Search

4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 11

5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0

7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0

8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 040 Pre-fail Offline - 0

9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 19

10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0

12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 8

191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0

192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2

193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 143

194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 153 153 000 Old_age Always - 39 (Min/Max 19/40)

196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0

197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0

198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0

223 Load_Retry_Count 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1

No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1

Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error

# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 5 -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1

SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS

1 0 0 Not_testing

2 0 0 Not_testing

3 0 0 Not_testing

4 0 0 Not_testing

5 0 0 Not_testing

Selective self-test flags (0x0):

After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.

Hgst Serial Number

If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

Should I return the drive? I am a bit scared because my old drive failed and this was to be a replacement.

MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), iOS 8

Posted on

HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) was a manufacturer of hard disk drives, solid-state drives, and external storage products and services.

It was initially a subsidiary of Hitachi, formed through its acquisition of IBM's disk drive business. It was acquired by Western Digital in 2012, but required to operate autonomously from the remainder of the company due to conditions imposed by Chinese regulators. However, in October 2015, Chinese regulators permitted Western Digital to begin wider integration of HGST into its main business. By 2018, the HGST brand had been phased out, with its remaining products now marketed under the Western Digital name.

• 2Products

History[edit]

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies was founded on January 6, 2003, as a merger of the hard disk drive businesses of IBM and Hitachi.^[1] Hitachi paid IBM US$2.05 billion for its HDD business.^[2][3]

On March 8, 2012, Western Digital (WD) acquired Hitachi Global Storage Technologies for $3.9 billion in cash and 25 million shares of WD common stock valued at approximately $0.9 billion. The deal resulted in Hitachi, Ltd. owning approximately 10 percent of WD shares outstanding, and reserving the right to designate two individuals to the board of directors of WD. Citing antitrust concerns, China's Ministry of Commerce required HGST to operate autonomously from Western Digital, restricting outright integration between the companies' operations. As a result, HGST continued to operate independently with its own product lines and product development.^[4][5]

As part of the deal, Western Digital agreed to trade assets with Toshiba, with Toshiba receiving assets for the production of 3.5-inch hard drives, in exchange for a Toshiba factory in Thailand for producing 2.5-inch drives (which had been inactive since the 2011 floods).^[6]

In November 2013, HGST announced a 6 TB capacity drive filled with helium.^[7] In September 2014, the company announced a 10 TB helium drive, which uses shingled magnetic recording to improve density.^[8]

In October 2015, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce issued a decision allowing Western Digital to begin integrating HGST into its main business. WD was required to maintain the HGST brand and sale team for at least two more years.^[9] In 2018, Western Digital announced that it was phasing out its HGST brand and that all of its remaining product lines (particularly Ultrastar) will henceforth be marketed under the Western Digital brand.^[10][11]

Products[edit]

Hard drives and solid-state drives[edit]

• Ultrastar – Enterprise-class line of 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch HDDs with SCSI, Fibre Channel, SAS, and SATA interfaces; and a line of 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch Fibre Channel and SAS SSDs.
• Deskstar – Desktop-class line in 3.5-inch form factor with SATA interfaces.
• Travelstar – Mobile-class line in 2.5-inch form factor with SATA interfaces.
• Endurastar – Ruggedized line in 2.5-inch form factor with PATA or SATA interfaces, primarily for automotive applications.
• Cinemastar – 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch form factors, optimized for consumer electronics applications requiring quiet operation and streaming support.

External storage[edit]

• LifeStudio products, announced in 2010 but now discontinued, were external hard drives that combine photo organization software, a 3D Wall for displaying content, a connected USB Flash key.^[12]
• G-Technology external storage products, acquired in 2009,^[13] are sold to AppleMacintosh communities, including users of multimedia content such as Final Cut Pro digital audio/video production professionals.
• Touro family of cloud storage backup products.

See also[edit]

• Hitachi-LG Data Storage (HLDS) – joint venture of Hitachi and LG; manufacturer of DVD and Blu-ray drives.
• Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) – manufacturer of modular enterprise storage systems, software and services.

References[edit]

1. ^'Hitachi Establishes 'Hitachi Global Storage Technologies,' Taking A Bold New Step for Storage Innovation' (Press release). Hitachi. January 6, 2003.
2. ^Hitachi buys IBM disk drive business, June 6, 2002Archived March 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
3. ^'Hitachi and IBM Complete Hard Disk Drive Agreement' (Press release). IBM. December 31, 2002.
4. ^Sayer, Peter (2018-11-30). 'Inside Western Digital's massive cloud ERP migration'. CIO. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
5. ^Byford, Sam (March 9, 2012). 'Western Digital completes $4.8b Hitachi GST buyout, becomes world's largest HDD manufacturer'. The Verge.
6. ^Hollister, Sean (2012-02-28). 'Western Digital and Toshiba trade hard drive tech, clearing the way for WD / Hitachi merger'. The Verge. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
7. ^Mellor, Chris (November 4, 2013). 'Helium-Filled disks lift off: You can't keep these 6TB beasts down'. The Register. Retrieved November 5, 2013.
8. ^Gasior, Geoff (September 9, 2013). 'Shingled platters breathe helium inside HGST's 10TB hard drive'. The Tech Report. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
9. ^'China finally says yes to WD-HGST union'. The Register. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
10. ^Hagedoorn, Hilbert. 'Western Digital moves away from the HGST branding'. Guru3D.com. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
11. ^Sharp, Lenny (2018-03-15). 'Western Digital Unveils New Addition: 8TB Ultrastar® DC HC320'. Western Digital Corporate Blog. Retrieved 2018-12-18.
12. ^Dong Ngo (July 7, 2010). 'Hitachi unveils LifeStudio storage solutions'. CNet news blog. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
13. ^'Hitachi GST Completes Acquisition of Fabrik, Inc. — Company Sets Stage for Continued Global Expansion'(PDF). News release. April 6, 2009. Archived from the original(PDF) on September 20, 2010. Retrieved June 25, 2013.