Toshiba MG10-D 3.5-Inch 5-Disk CMR Up to 10TB HDDs SAS and SATA Series

Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH announces its MG10-D Series, a family of air-filled CMR HDDs
supporting SAS and SATA interfaces and capacities of up to 10TB ^[1].

Crafted with precision engineering and over 50 years of the company experience, the MG10-D Series delivers improved performance and power efficiency over prior-gen. With sanitize instant erase (SIE) and SED options ^[2], valuable data is safeguarded by a storage solution known for its performance and unwavering dependability.

Built for the increasing application demands of enterprise server and storage solutions, the MG10-D Series delivers a new level of performance. For example, compared with the previous model ^[3], the it provides an approximately 13% better maximum sustained transfer speed of 268MB/s ^{[ 4]} and doubles the cache buffer size to 512MB ^[5]. It also reduces power consumption in active idle mode by approximately 21%, to 5.74W. Architected to deliver improved TCO, the MG10-D Series fits into a variety of business-critical applications, such as email, data analytics, data retention, and surveillance.

“Toshiba’s MG10-D Series delivers exceptional performance to meet the demands of growing business critical applications. The new cutting-edge design of the MG10-D Series is engineered for sustainable enterprise environments and fits seamlessly into existing infrastructure reducing TCO,” said Larry Martinez-Palomo, VP, head, storage products division.

The MG10-D Series is a 5-disk CMR standard 3.5-inch ^[6], 7,200rpm air-filled platform. Available capacities are 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10TB for both SAS and SATA. SATA is also available in a 1TB drive.

The series supports 6Gb SATA or 12Gb SAS interface options in Advanced format 512e and 4Kn ^[7]. A 512n option is available on the 1, 2, and 4TB offerings to support legacy systems with native 512 byte block sizes. Designed for 24×7 enterprise reliability, the MG10-D Series has
a workload rating of 550TB, an AFR of 0.44% and an MTTF/MTBF ^[8] of 2 million hours.

The MG10-D Series will be available in 3Q24.

[1] Definition of capacity: 1TB = one trillion bytes, but storage capacity actually available may vary, depending on operating environment and formatting. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.
[2] The HDDs which have any optional security function may not be available in the countries where the use of such HDDs is prohibited or limited due to export control and local regulations.
[3] Comparison between the SATA interface 512e model ‘MG10ADA10TE’ and the previous generation ‘MG06ACA10TE.’
[4] RW speeds may vary depending on the host device, read and write conditions, and file size.
[5] A mebibyte (MB) is 2²⁰, or 1,048,576 bytes.
[6] 3.5-inch mean the form factor of HDDs. They do not indicate drive’s physical size.
[7] Default format is 512e. Convertible to 4kn format.

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