Toshiba MG10D HDD Boasts Enhanced Speed, Efficiency
Blocks&Files, Tuesday, June 25th, 2024
Toshiba has developed a low-end nearline disk drive suitable only for SATA and SAS connectivity with a lower total cost of ownership than the drive it replaces.
The current MG10F drive was introduced in September last year as a 1-22TB product range with 12Gbit/sec SAS and 6Gbit/sec SATA connectivity options for its 7,200rpm platters. The range uses conventional (perpendicular) magnetic recording (CMR) and was split into two parts, with the 12-16TB products using helium-filled enclosures and the 1-10TB variants using less expensive air-filled casing. The cache buffer varies between 128MiB (134MB) and 256MiB (268MB) for the 1-14TB models and is 512MiB (537MB) for the higher capacity variants.