Computing Classics Wiki:Manual of Style/Hard drive models

This is the recommended style guide to follow when creating hard drive articles, for example, TOSHIBA HDWD240.

Title

The article title should be the full ATA_IDENTIFY name of the drive. For example, TOSHIBA HDWD240 and not Toshiba HDWD240 (non all-caps "Toshiba"). Western Digital drive models should have the identifier code in the title, with all numbers replaced with lowercase x's. For example, WDC WD80EDAZ-xxTA3Ax, and not WD80EDAZ or WDC WD80EDAZ-11TA3A0.

Infobox

As with the majority of articles, hard drive models should include an infobox that specify key details such as spindle speed, capacity and form factor. For more information, see Template:Infobox hard drive. If you have them, please upload two images; an image of the drive's entire top label (give priority to images with uncensored serial numbers), and a screenshot of a hard drive SMART attribute viewer such as CrystalDiskInfo with all SMART attributes visible (please drag down the box to expand your CDI view, for example).

If images of a specific hard drive model are not available, then please use images from a model in the same family. For example, for a period of time images for TOSHIBA HDWD260 were not available, so images from TOSHIBA HDWD240 were borrowed instead. Ensure that the caption shows the model number of the substitute model, and contains the word "similar" or its synonyms, so the reader knows that the image is not of the real model. Please replace them with real model images as soon as they are available.

History

If warranted, write a short subsection detailing the drive model's history, including what it replaced and its discontinuation, if applicable.

SMART attributes

A table should be included that specifies SMART attributes typically reported by the drive. Use the {{SMART attributes}} or {{Smartattr}} templates for this. For example, the vast majority of Toshiba drives use the following code to render their SMART attributes.

{{smartattr
|0x01 = Read Error Rate
|0x02 = Throughput Performance
|0x03 = Spin-Up Time
|0x04 = Start/Stop Count
|0x05 = Reallocated Sectors Count
|0x07 = Seek Error Rate
|0x08 = Seek Time Performance
|0x09 = Power-On Hours
|0x0A = Spin Retry Count
|0x0C = Power Cycle Count
|0xBF = G-Sense Error Rate
|0xC0 = Power-off Retract Count
|0xC1 = Load/Unload Cycle Count
|0xC2 = Temperature (Max/Min/Current)
|0xC4 = Reallocation Event Count
|0xC5 = Current Pending Sector Count
|0xC6 = Uncorrectable Sector Count
|0xC7 = UltraDMA CRC Error Count
|0xDC = Disk Shift
|0xDE = Loaded Hours
|0xDF = Load/Unload Retry Count
|0xE0 = Load Friction
|0xE2 = Load 'In'-time
|0xF0 = Transfer Error Rate?
}}