Opened 4 months ago

Last modified 4 months ago

#1794 closed enhancement

drivedb.h: Toshiba MG-Series improvement — at Version 2

Reported by: S.Haupt Owned by:
Priority: minor Milestone: Release 7.5
Component: drivedb Version: 7.4
Keywords: hdd Cc: S.Haupt

Description (last modified by Alex Samorukov)

Dear Smartmontools-Team,

I propose an update to the drivedb.h file in order to correctly support the Toshiba MG-Series harddrives. The current Regexes do not cover all drive models (especially the SAS-Models are not covered). The proposed changes can be found in the attached diff file.

Information on the MG-Series drives are sourced from this Toshiba datasheet:
https://www.toshiba-storage.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04

Toshiba Model numbers have the following meaning:

1-4   Series Number
       MGnn: with nn in 04,05,05,06,07,08,09,10
5     Interface
       A: SATA
       S: SAS
6     RPM
       C: 7,200 rpm
7     Height
       A: 26.1 mm
       F: unknown
8-10  Formatted Capacity
       400: 4 TByte
       600: 6 TByte
       800: 8 TByte
       10T: 10 TByte
       12T: 12 TByte
       14T: 14 TByte
       16T: 16 TByte
       20T: 20 TByte
       22T: 22 TByte
11-12 Options
       A: 4K Native (4Kn) AF
       E: 512 B Emulation (512e) AF
       N: 512 B Native (512n) Format
       AY: 4K Native (4Kn) AF and SIE ( Sanitize Instant Erase )
       EY: 512 B Emulation (512e) AF and SIE ( Sanitize Instant Erase )
       NY: 512 B Native (512n) Format and SIE ( Sanitize Instant Erase )

See also:
https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/storage/support/storage-products-hdd.html

However, I belive this support page describing the model numbers is not 100% correct!

I hope that helps improving smartmontools.

Best regards
Sascha

Change History (3)

by S.Haupt, 4 months ago

Attachment: drivedb.h.MG-Series.diff added

drivedb.h diff file containing improvements for the Toshiba MG-Series drives

comment:1 by S.Haupt, 4 months ago

More precise description of my interpretation of:
https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/ap-en/storage/support/storage-products-hdd.html

I belive this file is correct until the MG04- or MG05-Series.

However, in later series it seems the interface speed field is also being used for indicating the drive capacity as drives with more than 9 TB came out.

comment:2 by Alex Samorukov, 4 months ago

Description: modified (diff)
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