The Toshiba 8TB MG08 Enterprise 7200 rpm SATA III HDDdelivers enterprise performance to business applications. Designed for midline and nearline business critical workloads, data center storage systems, and more. This 3.5" 26.1 mm hard drive features 8TB of storage capacity, 7200 rpm, and 256MB cache. Additionally, this drive features 512e disk sector formatting and a mean time between failures (MTBF) of 2.5 million hours.

8TB Storage Capacity    3.5"/26.1mm Form Factor    SATA III 6 Gb/s Interface    256MB Cache    7200 rpm    Up to 262 MB/s Transfer Speed    2.5 Million Hours MTBF    512e Disk Sector Format    Designed for Enterprise Storage

Industry standard 3.5" 26.1 mm height form factor

8TB of storage capacity

SATA III 6 Gb/s interface

512e Advanced Format Sector technology

Related Questions and Answers

Q: 1. Is this a CMB drive?

A: The Toshiba 16TB N300 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal NAS HDD is a CMR hard drive.

Q: 2. Will this drive work with Windows 11?

A: The WD 16TB Gold 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal Enterprise HDD can be formatted to work with Windows 11.

Q: 3. Are they loud and noisy or not bad? I just bought two 12TB Seagate drives for my Drobo 8D and are really clanking and making lots of noise...almost sounds like something is for sure wrong. Thanks

A: Yes, mine are also loud and clanky. My experience with most enterprise products, be it routers, switches, or hard drives, is that they don't care about noise that much -- Just performance and reliability. So I believe what you are experiencing is normal.

Q: 4. What is the warranty on these drives?

A: The Toshiba 22TB MG10F Series 7200 rpm 3.5" SATA Internal HDD, B&H # TOMG10AFA22T, includes a 5 year warranty with Toshiba.

Q: 5. Is cache really only 64 MB? WD website indicates that 4 TB Black drives have 256 MB Cache.

A: Yes, the WD 4TB Desktop Performance 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal HDD Retail Kit BH #WEIDDP4 has 64MB Cache. The 6TB model has 256MB cache.

Q: 6. Is this drive hot swap-able if I use it with a internally mounted removable hard drive bay? Like the Thermaltake N0023SN Max 4 3.5 SATA HDD Rack. Thanks.

A: This drive is used in a internal connection and I have not tried to hot swap it. I think that if it were ejected properly, it could be hot swaped.

Q: 7. Are these brand new drives?

A: Yes, the WD 4TB Gold 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" Internal Enterprise HDD, B&H # WE4003FRYZSP, is a new drive.

Q: 8. Is this a bare bones or OEM drive? I'm concerned about the warranty.

A: Its sold only as OEM, there is no retail packaging for this drive. When you get the drive register the drive on Western Digital website just as you would a retail packaged drive. The warranty is never an issue as B&H is a major retailer.

Q: 9. Is WD PWL that clicks every 5 seconds enabled in 8/10 TV series? I know it does on 4gb and 6gb I bought before here. And they are loud and shake my desktop. If it is, are we able to disable it?

A: From what I can see, you are not able to disable the click feature on the WD 8TB WD_BLACK Performance SATA III 3.5" Internal Hard Drive.

Q: 10. Can this 12tb drive be used as in a desktop Windows 10 PC as a secondary hard drive mainly for storing large picture RAW files and large video files?

A: The Gold version of WDC's HDs is designed for data center (server) environments. That simply means it is designed to have a longer life span with heavier use. You pay more for that verses similarly sized WDC Blue or Black HDs but to answer your question yes it will work in a desktop PC with Windows 10 as a secondary drive.