Toshiba MG08 HDD Spec and Price in the United Kingdom
The MG08 is Toshiba's enterprise nearline generation: 7200rpm, 512MB of cache, and a five-year warranty, per the Toshiba product manual. It is CMR with a 550TB/year workload rating and the SED (self-encrypting) and instant-secure-erase options enterprise buyers need; the 14-16TB SKUs are the practical top of the line. Toshiba's enterprise drives are the quiet third choice behind WD Ultrastar and Seagate Exos, usually priced a little under both.
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- 14TB
- 16TB
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Specifications
- Capacity
- 14TB
- Interface
- SATA
- Sequential read
- 275 MB/s
- Sequential write
- 275 MB/s
- Rotation speed
- 7200 RPM
- Form factor
- 3.5-inch
- Cache
- 512 MB
- Warranty
- 5 years
Capacities
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What owners and reviewers say
Summarised from 1 source(s), reviewed September 14, 2026. A source is counted only where it names this model exactly. How we track prices
Commonly praised
- Reviewers found its sequential performance fast for an enterprise nearline drive.
- The range offers a broad set of options, including SATA or SAS, 4Kn or 512e sectors, and self-encrypting or instant-erase versions, which reviewers treat as genuine deployment flexibility.
- Its helium-sealed, nine-platter design packs the capacity into a standard-height 3.5-inch chassis while keeping power and thermals low.
Commonly criticised
- Its small-block random performance came in below some competing drives.
Sources behind this summary
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