Toshiba MG10AFA26TE 26TB 7200RPM 3.5-inch SATA Enterprise HDD

The Toshiba MG10AFA26TE is a 26TB 3.5-inch SATA enterprise hard disk drive engineered for demanding datacenter and cloud storage environments. Built on Toshiba's tenth-generation MG Series platform, it employs a nine-disk helium-sealed design combined with Flux Control Microwave-Assisted Magnetic Recording (FC-MAMR) technology, enabling the high areal density required to achieve 26TB capacity in a standard 3.5-inch form factor. The sealed helium atmosphere reduces internal drag and turbulence, contributing to lower operating power consumption and improved head-to-disk stability compared to air-filled designs.

Operating at 7,200 RPM with a 512MB data buffer, the MG10AFA26TE is optimized for workloads requiring sustained sequential throughput across large datasets. The drive supports a native 512-byte emulation sector format (512e) and connects via a 6Gb/s SATA III interface, maintaining compatibility with existing enterprise HBA and RAID controller ecosystems. Toshiba specifies a workload rating of 550TB per year and a 2.5 million hour mean time between failures (MTBF), reflecting the reliability expectations of continuous 24×7 operational environments found in hyperscale storage nodes, surveillance repositories, and nearline archive tiers.

The MG10AFA26TE incorporates Persistent Write Cache (PWC) technology, which uses a capacitor-backed mechanism to protect data integrity during unexpected power-loss events. Additional enterprise features include rotational vibration (RV) sensors to maintain performance in high-density multi-drive enclosures, support for the SATA Device Sleep (DevSleep) low-power state, and compatibility with enterprise RAID rebuild and error recovery control (ERC/TLER) settings. These characteristics position the drive as a high-capacity nearline solution for organizations scaling out object storage, AI training data lakes, and large-scale backup and archival infrastructure.

Ideal for

• Hyperscale and cloud-tier nearline object storage requiring maximum raw capacity per drive bay
• AI and machine learning training data repositories where large sequential datasets must be ingested and retrieved at sustained throughput
• Large-scale enterprise backup and disaster recovery targets, consolidating high-volume data onto fewer high-capacity spindles
• Dense surveillance video storage systems archiving continuous high-resolution camera streams across extended retention windows
• Cold and warm archive tiers in tiered storage architectures, offloading infrequently accessed data from high-performance NVMe or SAS pools
• High-density JBOD and NAS expansion shelves in enterprise datacenters where per-shelf usable capacity and power efficiency are critical

Technical specifications

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