Atola Insight

Supported Drives

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 (and newer) - we are currently working on these
• 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)

The following Hitachi Travelstar hard drives are supported: IC25NxxxATMRxx, HTxxxxxxxM9ATxx, HTxxxxxxxG9ATxx, HTxxxxxxxG9SAxx, HTxxxxxxxH9ATxx, HTxxxxxxxH9SAxx, HTxxxxxxxJ9ATxx, HTxxxxxxxJ9SAxx, HTxxxxxxxK9ATxx, HTxxxxxxxK9SAxx.

The following Hitachi DK hard drives are supported: DK23DA, DK23EA, DK23FA. Support for these drives added in version 1.4.5.

The following Hitachi Endurastar hard drives are supported: J4K50 (HEJxxxxxxF9ATxx), N4K50 (HENxxxxxxF9ATxx). Support for these drives added in version 1.4.5.

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
• Toshiba: only automatic firmware recovery is possible

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)