Toshiba MG07ACA14TE 14TB 3.5" SATA III Enterprise HDD 7200RPM

The Toshiba MG07ACA14TE (SKU HDD-14TB-TOSHIBA-MG07ACA14TE) is a 14TB, 3.5" SATA III enterprise hard drive made for storage that stays powered on all day.

What the specs mean in use

• 14TB capacity: room for recorded footage from many cameras. How many days it holds depends on your camera count, resolution and bitrate.
• 550 TB/year workload: the yearly volume of data the drive is rated to handle, around ten times an average desktop hard disk.
• 24/7 operation: built to run continuously, which is how a recorder or server uses its disks.
• 7200 RPM (revolutions per minute) with 256MB cache: a fast-spinning platter and a large buffer for read and write activity.
• SATA 6Gb/s, 3.5 inch: the connection and physical size your recorder, NAS or server bay must accept.

What else you need

A recorder, network storage unit or server with a 3.5" SATA bay. Check the maximum drive size your recorder supports before fitting 14TB.

Features for multi-bay systems

Rotational Vibration (RV) sensors detect shock and compensate for vibration, reducing the "knock-on" effect between neighbouring drives. Stable Platter Technology holds the motor shaft at both ends for better tracking accuracy. Persistent Write Cache keeps data in flash-based cache if power drops mid-write, then writes it to disk when power returns. The drive is halogen-free.

Toshiba lists centralised surveillance data storage, RAID and software-defined arrays, and industrial servers among its ideal uses.