Toshiba announces the Toshiba MG08-D Series HDDs, designed for a wide variety of business-critical applications, such as email and CRM (Customer Resource Management), data analysis for business intelligence, small-medium business servers, and data-retention and compliance archiving.

Toshiba's 7th generation air mechanical design provides better power efficiency and a lower component count to deliver better total cost of ownership than its earlier generation models. The new series features 4 TB, 6 TB and 8 TB models, in both SATA and SAS interfaces. The new 4 TB1 models are available in 512e, 4Kn and 512n sector models, and the 6 TB and 8 TB models are available in 512e and 4Kn sector models, assuring plug-and-play interoperability for applications using prior 4 TB models."Toshiba's new MG08-D Series delivers new levels of reliability and power efficiency to enterprise and business-critical server and storage platforms," said Shuji Takaoka, General Manager of Storage Products Sales & Marketing Division at Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation. "Toshiba's 7th generation conventional mechanical design utilizes Conventional Magnetic Recording technology to deliver plug-and-play versatility that is compatible with the widest range of applications and operating system environments."

The MG08-D Series provides many industry-standard features, including 7200rpm performance, a 3.5-inch form factor, choice of SATA 6 Gbit/s or 12Gbit/s SAS Interface, and a 550 TB a year workload rating. Compared with Toshiba's current line-up of 4-6-8 TB models, the new 4 TB model achieves the broadest range of benefits from the MG08 generation of technology advances. For example, compared with the previous model, the new 4 TB provides an approximately 23% better maximum sustained transfer speed of 243MiB/s and doubles the cache buffer size to 256MiB. It also improves the calculated reliability specification from 1.4 million hours MTTF (AFR 0.63%) to 2.0 million hours MTTF (AFR 0.43%)6, and reduces active idle power consumption to 4.07 W. The 2.0 million hour MTTF is also supported for the new 6 TB and 8 TB MG08-D Series models.

The Toshiba MG08-D Series 4 TB, 6 TB and 8 TB models are expected to be generally available in 1CQ 2021.

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