4971:1004 Hitachi LifeStudio Desk (3.5" HDD) [w/o flash key]

SimpleTech

Vendor ID
4971
Product ID
1004
Combined
4971:1004
Decimal
18801:4100

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a Hitachi LifeStudio Desk (3.5" HDD) [w/o flash key] manufactured by SimpleTech. The vendor ID 4971 is registered to SimpleTech with the USB Implementers Forum, and 1004 is the product ID that SimpleTech assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 4971:1004 SimpleTech Hitachi LifeStudio Desk (3.5" HDD) [w/o flash key].

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 4971:1004 SimpleTech Hitachi LifeStudio Desk (3.5" HDD) [w/o flash key]

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 4971:1004, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 4971:1004. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=4971, idProduct=1004.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_4971&PID_1004
USB\VID_4971&PID_1004&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_4971&PID_1004"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    Hitachi LifeStudio Desk (3.5" HDD) [w/o flash key]:
      Product ID: 0x1004
      Vendor ID: 0x4971  (SimpleTech)

Driver help

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

4971  SimpleTech
	1004  Hitachi LifeStudio Desk (3.5" HDD) [w/o flash key]

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