TOSHIBA MG08ADA400AY

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TOSHIBA MG08ADA400AY is a hard drive model created by Toshiba. It succeeds the previous generation MG04ACA400AY, reducing the platter count to three. This particular drive supports Sanitize Instant Erase. It, along with the other MG08-D models, was announced in October 2020, and started to be shipped in 2021.[1]

SMART attributes[edit | edit source]

ID Name
0x01/1 Read Error Rate
0x02/2 Throughput Performance
0x03/3 Spin-Up Time
0x04/4 Start/Stop Count
0x05/5 Reallocated Sectors Count
0x07/7 Seek Error Rate
0x08/8 Seek Time Performance
0x09/9 Power-On Hours
0x0A/10 Spin Retry Count
0x0C/12 Power Cycle Count
0xBF/191 G-Sense Error Rate
0xC0/192 Power-off Retract Count
0xC1/193 Load/Unload Cycle Count
0xC2/194 Temperature (Max/Min/Current)
0xC4/196 Reallocation Event Count
0xC5/197 Current Pending Sector Count
0xC6/198 Uncorrectable Sector Count
0xC7/199 UltraDMA CRC Error Count
0xDC/220 Disk Shift
0xDE/222 Loaded Hours
0xDF/223 Load/Unload Retry Count
0xE0/224 Load Friction
0xE2/226 Load 'In'-time
0xF0/240 Transfer Error Rate?

Trivia[edit | edit source]

  • The MG08-D 4 TB 512e and 4Kn models, as well as retail rebranded variants, were the highest density 4 TB models at the time of their release, and the first to break the 1.33 TB/platter segment in this market segment.

See also[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. "Toshiba Announces Updated 4TB, 6TB and 8TB Enterprise Capacity HDD Models". Toshiba. 27 October 2020. Archived from the original on 13 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
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