Toshiba MG Series Enterprise 14TB 3.5’’ SATA 6Gbit/s Internal HDD 7200RPM 550TB/year 24/7 Operation. MG07ACA14TE

Noisy. But, It has the capacity that I want and the speed that I want. I Transferred over 12 TB in less than a day and have indexed all the files and created numerous sub folders. It formatted and connected without any problems.

The internal HDD was easy to install and started right up without any problems.

Purchased this HDD because of prior reviews. Worked well out of the box but now approximately 3 months later the HDD is experiencing multiple errors and on occasion will not boot. I purchased a lower capacity Toshiba about a year ago and had similar issues except much earlier after I purchased so I returned the drive and went with an WD HDD and it is working wonderfully like the rest of my WD and most of my Seagate HDDs. I guess I am slow on the uptake for getting this drive since I had issues with Toshiba before -- but no more Toshibas for me. Hope others have better experiences.

Reorganizing my backup system, and trying to save space in my safe, I'm using this as a backup drive for 4 other drives which reside in a Mac Pro (Early 2009) tower. I popped it into my Startech "toaster"-style SATA hard drive holder. It spun up and then I got a screen dialog saying the disk could not be read and needed to be formatted (this is normal with a new drive on a Mac). I used Disk Utility to first erase the disk and then to create 4 partitions of different sizes for the various drives I wanted backed up: an SSD boot drive plus 3 data drives which vary in size from 2 to 8 terabytes. I had no problems formatting, partitioning, or copying data to this drive in a few hours of use so far. At this writing this was the cheapest 14tb drive I could find at 529 bucks. I can't comment on its speed as this isn't an issue in my use as I will only use it for backups at night, but I will report here again if I have any problems with this drive. When received it was well-packed in a nice thick protective bubble-bag, inside a cardboard box, which inspires confidence that these drives will survive shipment unlike some I have received. I should add however that my drive has a different label than the one shown in the listing. Mine is a generic white label which does say "Toshiba" and "14TB" among other data on it.

I have or had 5 of these + 3 of the 16TB model. Overall, I have to admit I am pleased with them, but I did have one go "bad" on me. I put bad in quotes because the Synology software kicked it out of the volume and said it needed to be replaced, even though in the drive stats, it reported as healthy. When I called their support, I was told that the drive had one of the indicators the drive was about to go bad. I couldn't risk my data. So, I bought a 16TB to replace it in the meantime while I wait for RMA. It had been in use for around a year. All my other drives are going well so far. RMA said about 30 days to replace. Hopefully that goes well....

I purchased this drive to use in my high end desktop rig (at home) mainly to store raw files of time lapse shots. The drive came in an anti-static bag inside a form-fitting airbag (see pic), which itself was snug inside the box, and is as protective as one can get in shipping delicate hard drives. After opening I immediately started a slew of stress tests before commissioning the drive in my computer. I first performed a 24 hour continuous random seek test (see pic) which showed an average seek time of 12 ms and no abnormal behavior. Temperature variations are within normal range, and only due to changes in day and night ambient temperatures (~85 F ambient temperature at the hottest). Next I performed 3 pairs of write+read tests on the drive where the data was written and read consecutively. This took 115 hours to complete (see last 3 pics, I left it running while on a weekend trip out of town) and everything passed with no errors. Again temperature variations were due to day/night time ambient temps, but overall stayed well below dangerous levels. Max read and write rates were ~265 MB/s (using the convention 1 MB = 1000 KB, not Windows which is 1 MB = 1024 KB) using Crystal Disk Mark. Noise-wise it is actually pretty quiet relatively speaking, about on par with my WD Black drives. In conclusion I'm quite pleased with it, will update if anything changes.

REALLY take time and consider noise levels for use in home NAS, or in any scenario other than either for use in already loud enterprise rooms, or occasional use backups, where loud noise for a few minutes isn't a problem. Can't knock it for being loud, because it was sort of my own fault for ignoring reviews (the word enterprise should have been a giveaway). Bought 5 of the 14TB versions for my synology. Previously was using 10x 3TB WD red plus and I can't hear those run. I can here these operating IN THE NEXT ROOM. I'd give my own intelligence 2 stars. In the future, I will probably not purchase any enterprise drives for my home NAS and I'll probably stick to NAS drives.

I just received this today. Dell nor Toshiba have warranty on this.

Commandé dans la boutique Clever-Stuff, le disque est neuf et garanti 5 ans par Toshiba. Le disque est bruyant en écriture, par contre totalement silencieux concernant la rotation des plateaux et ne chauffe pas.

I purchased 5 of these HDDs, all arrived DOA. And later I noticed a Used HDD always became available on the listing when I returned mine... Then I started to check the serial numbers and realized I received the same previously known bad HDDs. More than once. Do not by USED HDDs here.

I just got the drive for my synology NAS...so I can not say anything how the quality is right now. I was supprised about the price for this sized hdd. The package arrived in a good box with a smaller box inside. The small box was locked with crinkle paper inside the bigger box. The smaller box contained 2 layers of foam with the hdd between it. Well packaged,

Il rapporto qualità prezzo ci sta.. sono tanti GB ad un prezzo ragionevole. Considerate che i 14 GB dichiarati in realtà sono circa 12 una volta formattato. È il primo hdd ad Elio che compro e onestamente me lo aspettavo silenzioso, ma proprio silenzioso non è. Non lo considero un hard disk che fa particolarmente rumore però l'accesso al disco si sente. Non posso ancora giudicare la durata perché ce l'ho da troppo poco tempo. Il mio utilizzo è come disco di backup che mi protegge dai guasti degli SSD che uso come unità principali e su cui ho salvato dati importanti come le foto della mia famiglia e queste cose. È il secondo hard disk della Toshiba che compro ed entrambi mi danno soddisfazione. La velocità di trasferimento dati è ottima e sembrano affidabili. Ve lo consiglio sicuramente come HDD di backup. Non lo consiglierei come disk principale perché non raggiunge ovviamente la velocità di un SSD ed è un po' rumoroso come tutti gli hdd meccanici.

Edit du 19/10/2023 : Je remonte la note à 4 sur 5. Le 2eme hdd ne faisait pas les bruits du 1er d'hier, ouf. En revanche j'ai eu quelques frayeurs en n'arrivant pas à l'activer du 1er coup et pareil impossible à formater du 1er coup. J'avais des messages d'erreur mais ici il s'affichait dans le gestionnaire de disque et idem dans la freebox. Formatage etc OK en ntfs/guid Les transferts vers le disque se font. Si je ne mets pas 5 sur 5 c'est parce que contrairement aux autres très nombreux toshiba que j'ai, depuis le p300 et toutes leurs variantes et séries depuis plus de 10 ans, celui ci je trouve qu'il fait du bruit. Pas gênant mais des bruits de bling bling assez aigus au démarrage et ça gratte pas mal lors de copies. Les autres toshiba pouvaient gratter mais ça s'entendait à peine sur un dock ouvert alors que là dans le boîtier en alu, costaud, où ça isole quand même, ici on l'entend. Rien de méchant et ça n'empêche pas de dormir à côté mais pas 100% silencieux. Maintenant espérons que Amazon enregistre vite et bien le retour du 1er pour que je sois vite remboursé car j'avais pas prévu l'achat de 2 hdd ! Espérons que ce hdd n2 durera comme les autres sans aucun pb. Je préfère à la rigueur une panne à froid avec retour et rachat sans perte de données que cela tombe en panne tôt ou tard et que je perde bcp, même si je fais des sauvegardes multiples. Original du 18/10/2023 : Titre 1er hdd hs panne à froid 1/5 etoiles J'étais contente de l'ouvrir ce soir en rentrant pour le brancher et lancer els transferts dessus. J'avais pour une fois quelques peurs en voyant certains commentaires parlant de problème au déballage ou peu après mais n'ayant jamais eu de problème avec toshiba (j'ai des p300, X300, n300 et celui ci. Au total j'en ai plus de 90!) les plus fonctionnent toujours nickel, comme les plus récents. Il devait être branché en usb sur une freebox, comme les autres. Branché, je vais dans mafreebox.freebox.fr pour aller l'activer et formater en ntfs comme d'hab mais déjà un truc cloche, je vois le disque en erreur ! Me dis bizarre... D'autant que toutes les autres info étaient manquantes. Je tente quand même car il était peut être en raw. Mais pour le mettre en ntfs comme les autres, à peine cliqué sur valider pour lancer l'opération, message d'erreur. Me dis bizarre. Je retire le disque en toute secu puis éteins le boîtier et sors le hdd. Il semble OK, je le remets dans son logement comme il faut et rallume le boîtier. Mais là je mets l'oreille contre, au cas où. J'ai eu le nez fin. Ça fait des séries de ding ding ding au nombre de 10 puis pause de 1sec puis reserie de 10...et tout ceci sur 5 séries, puis plus rien, silence. Je n'ai pas réussi à ravoir le disque en erreur sur la freebox. Totalement inactif et tout vide. Impossible de faire quoi que ce soit. Je débranche et tente de le mettre sur un pc sous Windows. J'ouvre le gestionnaire de disques et allume le hdd. Rien. Invisible. Donc là, le hdd est hs complet. Panne à froid. J'ai vérifié le boîtier au cas où mais en mettant un autre disque comme j'ai mis le toshiba, pas de problème, direct reconnu. Donc c'était pas une mauvaise manipulation sachant que le boîtier est un '' hot swap '' donc on met en position, on enfonce et on ferme la trappe qui pousse, sans aucun jeu, le hdd contre les fiches. Pas de fausse manip possible à part mettre le disque à l'envers mais on ne pourra pas fermer la trappe ! Ma 1ere panne à froid. Snif. Pourtant, contrairement aux autre avis ayant eu des problèmes à froid, le hdd était ici dans une boîte carton molletonnée très epaisse et dense, bien fermée et la boîte carton était dans du papier bulles. L'ensemble était dans un carton Amazon entouré de papier froissé mais il ne bougeait pas dedans. Le hdd était aussi dans une pochette anti statique fermée. C'était bien un hdd neuf sauf si possibilité de changer la pochette anti statique. L'étiquette du hdd indiquait bien 14to de capacité. Celui ci repart à Amazon et en parallèle j'en ai recommandé un identique. J'espère juste que le remboursement du 1er sera rapide car j'avais pas prévu de faire 2 achats ! Je corrigerai la note et avis si le 2eme est lui OK