Toshiba MG10AFA24TEY 24TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-inch Enterprise Nearline HDD

The Toshiba MG10AFA24TEY is a 24TB 3.5-inch enterprise nearline hard disk drive built on Toshiba's 10th-generation MG Series platform, featuring a 9-platter helium-sealed design that reduces internal air resistance and enables higher areal density at sustained 7200RPM rotation. The drive interfaces via SATA 6Gb/s and incorporates a 512MB data buffer, supporting sustained sequential transfer rates suited to high-throughput data pipeline environments. Advanced error correction and Toshiba's proprietary Persistent Write Cache technology help maintain data integrity during unexpected power loss events, while rotational vibration (RV) compensation sensors allow stable operation in high-density multi-drive enclosures.

Designed for 24×7 continuous operation, the MG10AFA24TEY carries a 550TB/year workload rating, positioning it for demanding read-intensive and mixed-workload enterprise applications where capacity per drive bay is a primary consideration. The drive supports hardware-based AES 256-bit Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) functionality in the 'Y' variant designation, enabling compliance-ready data-at-rest protection without host CPU overhead. SATA DevSleep power mode reduces idle power consumption, which is a meaningful factor in large-scale rack deployments where aggregate drive power budgets are tightly managed.

The MG10AFA24TEY is qualified for deployment in enterprise storage arrays, object storage nodes, data lake infrastructure, and AI/ML training data repositories where large contiguous datasets must be written and read at sustained throughput. Its compatibility with major storage server platforms and standard 3.5-inch SAS/SATA backplane slots makes it a straightforward high-capacity option for procurement teams building or expanding nearline storage tiers across datacenter environments in the UAE, GCC, EMEA, and APAC regions.

Ideal for

• Hyperscale and cloud object storage nodes requiring maximum raw capacity per rack unit with 24×7 operational reliability
• AI and machine learning training data lakes where large sequential dataset ingestion and retrieval at sustained throughput is critical
• Enterprise backup and restore target storage, consolidating large backup windows onto fewer high-capacity spindles
• Media and entertainment active archive for high-resolution video assets requiring dense, cost-efficient nearline storage tiers
• Surveillance and video analytics back-end repositories storing continuous multi-stream footage at scale
• Compliance and regulatory long-term data retention infrastructure where SED encryption supports data-at-rest security mandates

Technical specifications

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