Toshiba mg08 gets raid and hba adaptec support from microchip

Toshiba has announced the successful completion of compatibility testing of its new line of MG08 hard drives with a capacity of up to 16TB of capacity in a 3.5-inch format.

Toshiba MG08 gets RAID and HBA support

These hard drives are compatible with Adaptec host adapters (HBAs) as well as Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID) adapters. As a result, companies using Adaptec Smart Storage adapters were able to install Toshiba's 16TB drives.

The tests confirmed the compatibility of the MG08 line with the SATA models MG08ACA16TE (block of 512 bytes) and MG08ACA16TA (block of 4 kilobytes), as well as with products with the SAS interface: MG08SCA16TE (512) and MG08SCA16TA (4k).

Tests on the MG08 units included the Adaptec HBA 1100 series HBA adapters and the Adaptec SmartRAID 3100 RAID adapters, among other previous models. Long-term stability has been confirmed by extensive testing by Microchip. In this way, MG08 hard drives can be included in the list of Microchip compatible products.

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Not only the new Toshiba units belonging to the MG08 series have been approved by Microchip. The previous ranges of business capacity MG04, MG05, MG06, MG07 have also been tested and approved. This also applies to 'Enterprise Performance' hard drives in the AL12, AL13, AL14 and AL15 ranges.

Toshiba MG08 hard drives are 256 MB buffer cache hard drives with a spin speed of 7200 RPM for all 9 platters. Hard drives of this style are sealed with helium. For more information, visit the official product page.

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