Toshiba MG08 (MG08ACA16TE) - opinions\feedback? Looks good from aside, but suspectingly cheap

[dAlexis]

SUBJ! Bought 8 port LSI, thinking anout disks 4 next 10 years, 2 ones are in desktop win mirror - sometimes hear the heads, but it's not NAS. And 512 sector - will LSI be OK with this? IMHO, ...16TA model should be better, but lost in shops. BTW, Toshiba page is here https://storage.toshiba.com/enterprise-hdd/cloud-scale-capacity/mg08-series
Any info is welcome!

 

[NugentS]

look good to me.
I thought Russia was running out of storage

Also, in the UK, they are quite a good price as well.

 

[HoneyBadger]

I don't see anything untowards from the spec sheet - sealed helium, explicitly "not SMR recording" - looks fine, and an LSI SAS2/SAS3 HBA in IT mode has no practical "drive size limit" so either the 512e/4Kn models are good.

I'm intrigued by the claim of "Includes Toshiba Persistent Write Cache Technology for Data-Loss Protection in Sudden Power-Loss Events (512e models)" but suspect this is related to the 512e format (no risk of power loss for a 512b read-modify-write inside a 4K physical sector) but the minimum write size in TrueNAS is set at 4K by the ashift=12 floor value.

Looks good to me.

 

[dAlexis]

NugentS​

HoneyBadger​

Thanks! Planning 2 purchace