Hitachi HDS723030ALA640, HDS723020BLA642, HDS723015BLA642, HDS5C3030ALA630, HDS5C3020ALA632 Compatibility Summary

Compatibility Summary

Hitachi 6Gb/s SATA hard drives

Deskstar 7K3000 Deskstar 5K3000

HDS723030ALA640
HDS723020BLA642
HDS723015BLA642

Compatibility Testing

The Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Integration Lab tested this family of
Deskstar™ drives for compatibility with a
wide variety of systems and operating
systems.

Testing was performed to demonstrate
compatibility with the following hardware
and software. Other combinations of
hardware and software are expected to
function with this product family, but have
not been evaluated. This compatibility
testing confirms simply that the hard drive
was recognized, partitioned and then data
was written to and read from it. Drive
capacity and interface speed are not verified
during compatibility testing.

Many factors must be considered in order to
take advantage of high-capacity drives

2.2TB). Some configurations offer a

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higher likelihood of success. If you want to
use a high-capacity drive, please refer to
our High Capacity Technology Brief
visit our Above 2TB
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drives/above-2tb

Hitachi recommends you back up all data
before installing your new hard drive.

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HDS5C3030ALA630
HDS5C3020ALA632
HDS5C3015ALA632

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Systems and Motherboards

These Deskstar products were found to work
with the following systems. (Please note:

Use of an EFI BIOS is required in order to
use a 3TB hard drive as a boot drive)

ACER Aspire M5100 & X1200
ACER Veriton: M261, M460, & M661
Apple iMac 10
ASUS 790i Striker II NSE
ASUS M3N72-D
ASUS M4A89GTD PRO
ASUS P5LD2
ASUS P5N-E SLI
ASUS P5N7A VM
ASUS P7Q57-M DO
ASUS X58 Rampage III Gene
BIOSTAR TForce TA720GX A2+6.x
BIOSTAR TForce TA790GX X-fire A2+5.x
BIOSTAR TForce TF720
BIOSTAR TForce TP45HP P45 X-fire

Dell Dimension E521
Dell Vostro V420
EVGA nForce 790i SLI FTW
Gateway DX4200-UB001A
Gateway DX4320-09

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Systems and Motherboards (cont’d)

Gateway DX4710-05
Gateway FX6800-01e
Gateway FX6840-21
Gigbyte 890FXA – UD5
Gigbyte GA-P35-DQ6
Gigbyte GA-X48-DS4

HP Compaq Touchsmart IQ506
HP Compaq 505B MT
HP XW9400 Workstation
Intel DP55KG
Intel DP55WG
Intel DQ45EK
Intel TG Dreamsys
Lenovo ThinkCentre M50 & M51
Lenovo ThinkCentre S50
MSI 890 GXM-G65
MSI K8NGM2-L
MSI K8N NE04 Platinum
MSI P35 Neo MS-7360
MSI P7N Diamond SLI 780i
MSI P7NGM Digital MS-7530
MSI P7N Platinum SLI 750i
Sony VAIO VGC-RC210G
Sony VGC-JS110J
Sony VGC-LT31N
VIA VT8435B
ZOTAC GeForce 9300

Host Bus Adapters (HBAs)

These Deskstar products were found to be
compatible with the following HBAs. Please

verify that you are using the latest firmware
and device driver from the HBA
manufacturer.

Adaptec 1420SA
3Ware 7xxx Series PATA / SATA RAID
3Ware 8xxx Series PATA / SATA RAID
3Ware 9xxx Series SATA RAID
Acard AEC-6890
Areca ARC-1200
ASUS U3S6
HighPoint RocketRAID 620
HighPoint RocketRAID 1740

HighPoint RocketRAID 230x & 2310
LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260
Promise FastTrak SX4100
Promise FastTrak TX2300
Promise FastTrak TX4300 & TX4302
Promise FastTrak TX4310
Promise SuperTrak EX8300 & EX8350
Promise SuperTrak EX12350 & EX16350

Host Controller Chipsets

These Deskstar products were found to be
compatible with the following host controller
chipsets, some of which may not be included in
the above system list. Note: as of November

2010, for items marked with *, the chipset
vendor’s specific SATA driver does not support
capacities greater than 2.2TB so you must use
the latest Microsoft drivers to gain access to
3TB capacities.

AMD RS690 family
AMD RS780 family
AMD SB600 family
AMD SB700 family
AMD SB800 family
Initio 1605L, 1606L & 1608L
Initio 1610L
Initio 1611L
Initio 1615
Intel 5 Series *
Intel ICH5 family *
Intel ICH7 family *
Intel ICH8 family *
Intel ICH9 family *
Intel ICH10 family *
JMicron JMB360
JMicron JMB362
JMicron JMB363
JMicron JMB368
JMicron JMB519
JMicron JM20329
JMicron JM20336
Marvell 88SE61x1
Marvell 88SE912x
Marvell 88SE91x2

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