Toshiba Announces MG10-D Series of Enterprise HDD with Capacities up to 10TB

Kawasaki, Japan-Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation (Toshiba) announces the release of its MG10-D Series, an air-based family of conventional magnetic recording (CMR) HDD supporting SAS and SATA interfaces and capacities of up to 10TB^[1]. Crafted with precision engineering and over 50 years of Toshiba experience, the MG10-D Series delivers improved performance and power efficiency over prior generations. With sanitize instant erase (SIE) and self-encrypting drive (SED) options^[2], valuable data is safeguarded by a storage solution known for its robust 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 new 10TB MG10ADA10TE provides an approximately 13% better maximum sustained transfer speed of 268MiB/s^[4] and doubles the cache buffer size to 512MiB^[5]. It also reduces power consumption in active idle mode by approximately 21%, to 5.74W. Architected to deliver improved total cost of ownership (TCO), the new MG10-D Series fits seamlessly into a wide 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 Atsushi Toyama, General Manager of Toshiba's Storage Products Sales & Marketing Division.

The MG10-D Series is a 5-disk CMR standard 3.5-inch^[6], 7200 RPM air platform. Available capacities are 2TB, 4TB, 6TB, 8TB, and 10TB for both SAS and SATA. SATA is also available in a 1TB drive. The series supports 6Gb/s SATA or 12Gb/s SAS interface options in Advanced format 512e and 4Kn^[7]. A 512n option is available on the 1TB, 2TB, 4TB offerings to support legacy systems with native 512 byte block sizes. Designed for 24x7 enterprise reliability, the MG10-D Series have a workload rating of 550TB, an AFR of 0.44% and an MTTF/MTBF^[8] of 2M hours.

The MG10-D Series is available in sequence from June 2024 onwards.