{"title":"14TB – 16TB","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe capacity sweet spot for NAS rebuilds and homelab arrays. Exos X16 and X18 platforms, verified at 512e sector format.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"toshiba-mg07aca14te-14tb-sata-enterprise-hdd-grade-a-refurbished","title":"Toshiba MG07ACA14TE 14TB SATA Enterprise HDD — Grade A Refurbished","description":"\u003ch2\u003e14TB enterprise SATA · Grade A refurbished · 12-month warranty\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToshiba MG07ACA14TE. Helium-sealed, 9-disk, conventional magnetic recording. Not SMR, not a shucked external, not a desktop drive with an enterprise sticker on it. This is the drive that ran in the rack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you get with your drive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnterprise drives are sold by the model number everywhere. The difference here is what arrives with yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYour drive's own SMART report, emailed at dispatch\u003c\/strong\u003e, tied to the serial number on the unit we send you: health, performance, reallocated, pending and uncorrectable sectors, and power cycles.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe report on file, permanently.\u003c\/strong\u003e Ask us for it any time, before you order or two years later, and we will send it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNobody in this market publishes per-drive data. We do, and we do it against the specific unit in your hands rather than a model-level claim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow every drive is checked\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e01 · Sourced Grade A, serial recorded.\u003c\/strong\u003e Drives come from a single Sharjah supplier, certified Grade A and sanitised before dispatch, and every unit is listed by serial number on the invoice we receive. Nothing enters stock without a serial we can trace back to that document.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e02 · Tested here, against its own serial.\u003c\/strong\u003e We run our own SMART capture on every drive before it is offered. Not the supplier's. Ours. We read health, performance, reallocated sectors, pending sectors, uncorrectable errors and temperature, and we record the reading against the serial on the drive body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe do not reset counters. A drive's history is the reason to trust it, so we keep it rather than erase it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e03 · Your report ships with the drive.\u003c\/strong\u003e The reading for your specific unit is emailed to you when the drive is dispatched, and kept on file permanently. If you want it again in eleven months, ask and it is there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eData sanitisation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrives are sanitised by our supplier to \u003cstrong\u003eNIST SP 800-88 Purge\u003c\/strong\u003e before they reach us. Purge is the level at which recovery is considered infeasible using state-of-the-art laboratory techniques, executed with the ATA Secure Erase or Sanitize command set. Those are firmware-level operations, so they reach areas a logical overwrite cannot: sectors that have been mapped out, the drive's overprovisioned space, and any host-protected or device-configuration overlay areas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe do not cite DoD 5220.22-M. It was retired as a specified method years ago, and quoting it reads as dated to anyone who works in this field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are describing our supplier's process, not certifying it ourselves. We do not perform the wipe and we do not issue a per-drive sanitisation certificate. If your compliance records need documented chain-of-custody sanitisation evidence, ask us before ordering and we will tell you honestly what we can supply.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eOne honest limitation\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSMART evidences a drive's present health and its workload history. It does not predict the moment a drive will fail. Anything you cannot afford to lose should be backed up whatever grade it carries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThis batch\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll units in current stock were manufactured in 2019 and pulled from datacentre service. They reach us certified Grade A by our supplier. Each one is checked here before it ships. We do not take the supplier's word for it, and neither should you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSMART counters are never reset. What the drive reports is what we record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eManufacturer specification\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCapacity\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e14 TB\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eModel\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eMG07ACA14TE\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eInterface\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSATA 6 Gb\/s\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpindle speed\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e7200 RPM\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCache\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e256 MB\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eRecording\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eCMR, not SMR\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSector format\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e512e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eEnclosure\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHelium-sealed, 9 disk\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSustained transfer\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eup to 248 MiB\/s\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eRated MTBF\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2.5M hours\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eForm factor\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e3.5 inch\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePower\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e+12V 0.75A · +5V 0.70A\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThese are Toshiba's figures for the model, not measurements of any one unit. 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