Toshiba MG06

Toshiba MG06 was a hard drive family created by Toshiba. This family was announced in September 2017, and is a follow-up to the Toshiba MG05ACA series, increasing the maximum platters from six to seven, unprecedented in air-filled designs. It offers 6, 8 TB models in 1.33 TB/platter density (as with the previous MG05ACA) and 10 TB models using an increased 1.43 TB/platter density, as opposed to the MG05ACA only offering 8 TB models.

This family evolved into the Toshiba MG07 family, which used helium to achieve a record at the time nine platter capacity. The first true successor was Toshiba MG08-D, which replaced the 6 and 8 TB models with lower platter equivalents. 10 TB models continued unchallenged until Toshiba MG10-D, which similarly to MG08-D used 2 TB platters to achieve a 10 TB model with lower platter counts.

History

The MG06 is the follow-up to the MG05ACA. Released in September 2017, the MG06 family is the first and so far only family to offer seven platters in an air-filled design. It is also the first nearline enterprise family to offer power loss protection, a feature which would become standard on all Toshiba enterprise produced since.

With the release of the MG10-D family, the MG06 family became redundant and was discontinued. It is the first air platform to be discontinued since the MG05ACA family seven years earlier.

Products

Model	Capacity (TB)	Interface	Advanced Format	Sanitize Instant Erase support?
TOSHIBA MG06ACA600E	6	SATA	512e	No
TOSHIBA MG06ACA600A	6	SATA	4Kn	No
TOSHIBA MG06ACA600EY	6	SATA	512e	Yes
TOSHIBA MG06SCA600E	6	SAS	512e	No
TOSHIBA MG06SCA600A	6	SAS	4Kn	No
TOSHIBA MG06SCA600EY	6	SAS	512e	Yes
TOSHIBA MG06ACA800E	8	SATA	512e	No
TOSHIBA MG06ACA800A	8	SATA	4Kn	No
TOSHIBA MG06ACA800EY	8	SATA	512e	Yes
TOSHIBA MG06SCA800E	8	SAS	512e	No
TOSHIBA MG06SCA800A	8	SAS	4Kn	No
TOSHIBA MG06SCA800EY	8	SAS	512e	Yes
TOSHIBA MG06ACA10TE	10	SATA	512e	No
TOSHIBA MG06ACA10TA	10	SATA	4Kn	No
TOSHIBA MG06ACA10TEY	10	SATA	512e	Yes
TOSHIBA MG06SCA10TE	10	SAS	512e	No
TOSHIBA MG06SCA10TA	10	SAS	4Kn	No
TOSHIBA MG06SCA10TEY	10	SAS	512e	Yes

Trivia

• All MG06 family models and their retail rebrands are codenamed Magnum, which is reflected on the PCB silkscreen as "M6-SATA" or "M6-SAS". Subsequent MG families would also be codenamed Magnum plus a suffix usually equal to the generation number (e.g. MG07 is codenamed Magnum-07). Magnum made a number of overhauls that were carried over to all future Magnum platforms. These changes were not carried over to laptop and Hitachi HDA native Toshiba firmware.
  • Firmware versions became entirely numerical, as opposed to using a two-letter prefix. The prefix now varies based on customer only, not also model.
  • The value of Disk Shift also changed reporting; instead of reporting a single value, it reports three 16 bit integers. The disk shift measuring also seems more accurate, rarely reporting zero even when factory fresh. This changed reporting is likely due to a Toshiba patent dedicated to measuring disk shift, filed twelve years before the release of MG06.
  • The Date and Time TimeStamp no longer reports exact number of milliseconds powered on. Instead, it is the same value used for Power On Hours, converted to milliseconds.
• The MG06 family, as well as the later MG07 family and all related rebrands are the only Toshiba-made family to use Avago MCUs. The MG05 and before families, as well as MG08 and later families, all use Marvell MCUs.

External links

• Product page