Atola Insight Supported Drives List

Atola Insight supports all 1.8-inch, 2.5-inch, 3.5-inch IDE and SATA hard drives.

However, there are three functions that do not work with certain hard drive models:

  • Automatic password removal
  • Full firmware access
  • Automatic firmware recovery

Automatic password removal works for the following models:

  • All Seagate hard drives except 7200.11 models (we are working on 7200.11)
  • All Toshiba hard drives
  • All Western Digital hard drives
  • All Maxtor hard drives except STM series (STM models are actually Seagate hard drives)
  • All Samsung hard drives with the exception of old hard drives made prior to 2004
  • All Fujitsu hard drives with the exception of latest models (MHW and newer); remaining models are to be added in 2009
  • The following Hitachi hard drives are supported: IC25NxxxATMRxx, HTxxxxxxxM9ATxx, HTxxxxxxxG9ATxx, HTxxxxxxxG9SAxx, HTxxxxxxxH9ATxx, HTxxxxxxxH9SAxx, HTxxxxxxxJ9ATxx, HTxxxxxxxJ9SAxx, HTxxxxxxxK9ATxx, HTxxxxxxxK9SAxx; more models are to be added in 2009

Full firmware access:

  • Fujitsu hard drives: all models are supported
  • Samsung hard drives: all models are supported with the exception of old hard drives made prior to 2004
  • Maxtor hard drives: all models are supported except STM series (STM models are actually Seagate hard drives)
  • Western Digital hard drives: all models are supported
  • The following Hitachi hard drives are supported: ATMR, M9AT, G9AT, G9SA, H9AT, H9SA, J9AT, J9SA, K9AT, K9SA, PLA3, PLAT, ATCS, DLA3, DLAT, VLAT, DTLA, AVER, AVVA, AVVN, AVV2, ATDA, DPTA, DADA, DARA, DBCA, DCXA, DHEA, DTTA, DJNA, DJSA, DKLA, DTCA; more models are to be added in 2009
  • Toshiba: only automatic firmware recovery is possible
  • IBM hard drives are not supported at the moment, but full support for these hard drives will be introduced in 2009
  • Seagate hard drives are not supported at the moment, but full support for these hard drives will be introduced in 2009
  • Quantum hard drives are not supported; no plans for these drives since Quantum does not make hard drives for a long period of time

Automatic firmware recovery works for the following models:

  • All Toshiba hard drives
  • Most Fujitsu hard drives
  • "Pre-Marvell" Western Digital drives (based on a WD CPU)