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Toshiba MG08-D is a hard drive family created by Toshiba. This family succeeds all previous Toshiba air families; the MG04, MG06 and MG10-D; consisting of all integer capacitiy tiers from 1 thru 10 TB with the exception of 3 and 5 TB.

History

The Toshiba MG08-D family was announced in 2020. Shipments began in Q1 2021, with the 4 TB models hitting the market first, before the 6 and 8 TB ones came later.

Products

Model	Capacity (TB)	Interface	Advanced Format?	Sanitize Instant Erase support?	Self-encryption?
TOSHIBA MG08ADA400E	4	SATA	512e	No	No

Trivia

• The MG08-D 4 TB Advanced Format models are currently the only 7,200 RPM drive models in the 4 TB range to go beyond 1.33 TB density, at 1.6. In the 5,400 RPM space, Western Digital offers Apollo CR models with the same platter configuration.
• The introduction of this family marks the first time Toshiba has reused a generation code originally for helium (08) for an air-filled family. This air-filled family is disambiguated by changing the RPM letter from C to D.
• Despite being named MG08-D like the previous MG08 family, it is not known how much technological pedigree is shared between the two families, other than the MG08-D family being air-filled while the original MG08 family used helium.
• The MG08-D family is the first family whose highest capacity members are lower capacity than the family (in this case, MG08) released before it. This is by necessity due to targeting different markets and using air-filled HDAs.
• The MG08-D family is the last enterprise family made by Toshiba to use the ACS-3 Revision 5 command set. Starting with the MG09 family, it was upgraded to ACS-4 Revision 5.