Toshiba MG08-D

Toshiba MG08-D is a hard drive family created by Toshiba. This family was announced in October 2020, and released in Q1 2021. It is a follow-up to the Toshiba MG08 family released two years earlier, albeit using slightly lower density platters. It is the first air-filled enterprise design since the Toshiba MG06, reusing the five-platter Tomcat HDA last seen in the Toshiba MG04 family, and also the first of the -D suffix families, which are air-filled versions of a generation previously launched as helium. All Advanced Format models use 1.6 TB platters, while the 512n variants available for the 4 TB size use only 1.33 TB platters. As usual, it comes in both SATA and SAS versions. It replaces the 4 and 6 TB models of the MG04 family (leaving all lower than 4 TB models unreplaced) and the 6 and 8 TB MG06 models (while leaving the 10 TB ones unreplaced). Binned families based on MG08-D include the MN08-D, which is based on members of this family binned for NAS, and is similarly replacing respective MN04 and MN06 models, and the Toshiba MD08-D family, for desktops, as well as their retail rebrands in the X300 and N300 families.

History

The Toshiba MG08-D family was announced in 2020. Shipments began in Q1 2021, with the 4 TB models hitting the market first, before the 6 and 8 TB ones came later.

Products

Model	Capacity (TB)	Interface	Advanced Format?	Sanitize Instant Erase support?	Self-encryption?
TOSHIBA MG08ADA400E	4	SATA	512e	No	No
TOSHIBA MG08ADA400A	4	SATA	4Kn	No	No
TOSHIBA MG08ADA400N	4	SATA	No (1.33 TB/platter)	No	No
TOSHIBA MG08ADA400EY	4	SATA	512e	Yes	No
TOSHIBA MG08ADA400AY	4	SATA	4Kn	Yes	No
TOSHIBA MG08ADA400NY	4	SATA	No (1.33 TB/platter)	Yes	No
TOSHIBA MG08ADP400E	4	SATA	512e	No	Yes
TOSHIBA MG08ADP400A	4	SATA	4Kn	No	Yes
TOSHIBA MG08ADP400N	4	SATA	No (1.33 TB/platter)	No	Yes
TOSHIBA MG08SDA400E	4	SAS	512e	No	No
TOSHIBA MG08SDA400A	4	SAS	4Kn	No	No
TOSHIBA MG08SDA400N	4	SAS	No (1.33 TB/platter)	No	No
TOSHIBA MG08SDA400EY	4	SAS	512e	Yes	No
TOSHIBA MG08SDA400AY	4	SAS	4Kn	Yes	No
TOSHIBA MG08SDA400NY	4	SAS	No (1.33 TB/platter)	Yes	No
TOSHIBA MG08SDP400E	4	SAS	512e	No	Yes
TOSHIBA MG08SDP400A	4	SAS	4Kn	No	Yes
TOSHIBA MG08SDP400N	4	SAS	No (1.33 TB/platter)	No	Yes
TOSHIBA MG08ADA600E	6	SATA	512e	No	No
TOSHIBA MG08ADA600A	6	SATA	4Kn	No	No
TOSHIBA MG08ADA600EY	6	SATA	512e	Yes	No
TOSHIBA MG08ADA600AY	6	SATA	4Kn	Yes	No
TOSHIBA MG08ADP600E	6	SATA	512e	No	Yes
TOSHIBA MG08ADP600A	6	SATA	4Kn	No	Yes
TOSHIBA MG08SDA600E	8	SAS	512e	No	No
TOSHIBA MG08SDA600A	6	SAS	4Kn	No	No
TOSHIBA MG08SDA600EY	6	SAS	512e	Yes	No
TOSHIBA MG08SDA600AY	6	SAS	4Kn	Yes	No
TOSHIBA MG08SDP600E	8	SAS	512e	No	Yes
TOSHIBA MG08SDP600A	6	SAS	4Kn	No	Yes
TOSHIBA MG08ADA800E	8	SATA	512e	No	No
TOSHIBA MG08ADA800A	8	SATA	4Kn	No	No
TOSHIBA MG08ADA800EY	8	SATA	512e	Yes	No
TOSHIBA MG08ADA800AY	8	SATA	4Kn	Yes	No
TOSHIBA MG08ADP800E	8	SATA	512e	No	Yes
TOSHIBA MG08ADP800A	8	SATA	4Kn	No	Yes
TOSHIBA MG08SDA800E	8	SAS	512e	No	No
TOSHIBA MG08SDA800A	8	SAS	4Kn	No	No
TOSHIBA MG08SDA800EY	8	SAS	512e	Yes	No
TOSHIBA MG08SDA800AY	8	SAS	4Kn	Yes	No
TOSHIBA MG08SDP800E	8	SAS	512e	No	Yes
TOSHIBA MG08SDP800A	8	SAS	4Kn	No	Yes

Trivia

• The MG08-D 4 TB Advanced Format models were the first 7,200 RPM drive models in the 4 TB range to go beyond 1.33 TB density, at 1.6. In the 5,400 RPM space, Western Digital offers Apollo CR models with the same platter configuration.
• The introduction of this family marks the first time Toshiba has reused a generation code originally for helium (08) for an air-filled family. This air-filled family is disambiguated by changing the RPM letter from C to D.
• Despite being named MG08-D like the previous MG08 family, it is not known how much technological pedigree is shared between the two families, other than the MG08-D family being air-filled while the original MG08 family used helium.
• The MG08-D family is the first family whose highest capacity members are lower capacity than the family (in this case, MG08) released before it. This is by necessity due to targeting different markets and using air-filled HDAs.
• The MG08-D family is the last enterprise family made by Toshiba to use the ACS-3 Revision 5 command set. Starting with the MG09 family, it was upgraded to ACS-4 Revision 5.