{"product_id":"toshiba-mg09aca18te-18tb-7200rpm-sata-lff-hdd","title":"Toshiba MG09ACA18TE 18TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb\/s 3.5in MG09 Series Hard Drive","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Toshiba MG09ACA18TE is the 18TB, 512e SATA model in Toshiba's MG09 Series of data center hard drives. It is a 3.5-inch, 7200 RPM drive built on a nine-disk, helium-sealed mechanism, with a 512MiB buffer. Toshiba reaches 18TB with flux-control microwave-assisted magnetic recording (FC-MAMR) while keeping conventional magnetic recording (CMR), so the drive behaves like any other CMR disk in RAID sets, NAS pools and object stores.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToshiba's published figures for the 18TB SATA models are a typical sustained transfer rate of 268 MiB\/s, 4.16W at idle, a workload rating of 550TB transferred per year and an MTTF of 2.5 million hours. The low idle draw matters on large shelves, where watts per terabyte add up. It is a nearline drive for backup, archive, file and object storage, and capacity tiers. Workloads that depend on fast random I\/O belong on 10K or 15K SAS drives or SSDs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe MG09ACA18TE has a SATA 6Gb\/s interface and uses 512e formatting: 512-byte logical sectors on 4K physical sectors. Toshiba's 512e models include a persistent write cache that protects data in flight if power is lost suddenly. If your stack is 4K-native, the 4Kn part is MG09ACA18TA. Toshiba also sells Sanitize Instant Erase and self-encrypting versions, and a 12Gb\/s SAS model (MG09SCA18TE) for dual-port enclosures. Each is a separate part number.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore ordering, check the following:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe drive ships bare. Hot-swap bays in servers, JBODs and NAS units need a tray, and HPE or Dell servers need OEM carriers and may flag non-OEM firmware.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYour controller or NAS firmware supports 18TB drives and lists this model if the vendor publishes a compatibility list.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou want the standard model. The SED version is MG09ACP18TE.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll members of a RAID group use the same sector format.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Toshiba","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57995760599223,"sku":"MG09ACA18TE","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/1354\/7959\/files\/toshiba-mg09aca18te-18tb-7200rpm-sata-lff-hdd.png?v=1793869761","url":"https:\/\/ictdevices.com\/products\/toshiba-mg09aca18te-18tb-7200rpm-sata-lff-hdd","provider":"ICT Devices","version":"1.0","type":"link"}