Toshiba's 14TB near-line HDD "MG08ACA14TE" arrives, adopting the CMR method

Toshiba's nearline HDD "MG08ACA14TE" with a capacity of 14TB has arrived at PC Shop Ark. Standard type without encryption function, retail price is 36,300 yen.

Large-capacity HDD for servers and data centers, adopting CMR recording method

This is a 3.5-inch SATA HDD for data centers that deploy large-scale cloud services. It is a model that realizes large capacity and power saving by filling helium and high-density mounting design, and the number of discs is 9. In addition to adopting CMR (Conventional Magnetic Recording) as a recording method, it is equipped with an RV sensor that detects rotational vibration.

　The basic specs are a disk rotation speed of 7,200 rpm, a buffer size of 512 MiB, an MTTF of 2.5 million hours, and an annual workload of 550 TB. The sector format is 512e and the maximum continuous data transfer rate is 248MB/s. Weight is 720g.

[Interview cooperation: Computer Shop Ark]