TOSHIBA MG09ACA18TA 18TB 3,5inch 7.2k-RPM HIGH CAPACITY ENTERPRISE HARD DRIVE

TOSHIBA MG09ACA18TA 18TB 3,5inch  7.2k-RPM HIGH CAPACITY ENTERPRISE HARD DRIVE Technical Information

Specification	Value
Form factor	3.5-inch
Interface	12 Gbit/s SAS / 6 Gbit/s SATA
Available capacities	20TB / 18TB / 16TB / 14TB / 12TB / 10TB / 8TB / 6TB / 4TB / 2TB / 1TB
RoHS compatible	Yes
Halogen Free	Yes
Rotational speed	7,200 rpm
Buffer size	512 MB (16 - 20 TB), 256 MB (4 - 14 TB), 128 MB (1 - 2 TB)
Native Command Queuing (NCQ)	Supported
Workloads	550 TB/year
MTTF	2,500,000 hours (6 - 16TB) 2,000,000 hours (4TB) 1,400,000 hours (1 - 4TB)
Unrecoverable error rate	1 per 10^15 bits read
24/7 operation	Supported
Limited warranty	1 years

As Big Data drives demand for more distributed storage in the cloud and on premises, enterprise server and storage systems need to be built using trusted solutions. Toshiba’s Enterprise Capacity Hard Drive – MG Series offers formatted capacities as high as 20 TB with interface options including SATA and SAS and delivers 24/7 operation at a workload of 550 TB/year. The MG Series is ideal for enterprise storage array and industrial server and storage systems. It provides the capacity and advanced technologies to meet the special demands of datacenter and cloud-scale infrastructures. Toshiba's MG Series hard drives are built to power demanding workloads in enterprise servers, storage arrays (including RAID and software-defined), cloud storage, big data systems, archive and recovery solutions, surveillance data storage, and industrial applications, offering the capacity and reliability needed for these critical tasks.