Toshiba MG10AFA22TEY 22TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-inch Enterprise Nearline HDD

The Toshiba MG10AFA22TEY is a 22TB 3.5-inch enterprise nearline hard disk drive engineered for high-density, write-intensive datacenter environments. Built on Toshiba's tenth-generation MG Series platform, it employs Flux Control Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording (FC-MAMR) technology to achieve areal density gains that enable the 22TB capacity on a conventional helium-sealed hermetic design. The drive spins at 7,200 RPM and connects via SATA 6Gb/s, delivering a sustained transfer rate suited to bulk sequential workloads while maintaining compatibility with standard enterprise storage infrastructure.

The MG10 series is rated for a workload of up to 550TB per year, reflecting Toshiba's positioning of this drive for continuous, always-on datacenter operation rather than desktop or consumer-grade duty cycles. A 512MB data buffer supports read-ahead and write caching to smooth bursty I/O patterns typical of large-scale object storage, backup appliances, and nearline archival tiers. The drive incorporates Toshiba's persistent write cache technology and supports rotational vibration (RV) sensing to maintain stable performance when deployed in multi-drive, high-vibration rack enclosures.

With a rated annualized failure rate (AFR) of 0.44% and an MTBF of 2,500,000 hours, the MG10AFA22TEY is designed to meet the reliability expectations of hyperscale and enterprise storage deployments. It carries the 'Y' suffix designation indicating a SATA interface variant within the MG10AFA family, and it supports native 512e sector emulation, ensuring broad compatibility with existing enterprise storage stacks, RAID controllers, and server-attached storage configurations across AI data lake, media, and large-scale cloud infrastructure workloads.

Ideal for

• Hyperscale and enterprise object storage clusters requiring maximum per-spindle capacity at nearline access tiers
• AI and machine learning data lake infrastructure storing large unstructured training datasets and model checkpoints
• Large-scale backup and disaster recovery appliances where high sequential write throughput and capacity density are primary requirements
• Media and entertainment archive systems managing high-resolution video content, dailies, and long-term asset libraries
• Cloud storage nodes and software-defined storage (SDS) platforms such as Ceph or MinIO deployments demanding cost-efficient, high-density HDDs
• Surveillance and video analytics back-end storage aggregating continuous high-bitrate video streams from large camera arrays

Technical specifications

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