The Toshiba MG08 8TB is a 8TB SAS-12G HDD in new condition. It is in stock at $369.00 - $46.13/TB.
Part number: MG08SDA800E — decoded, with sibling variants and the warranty check.
SAS drives do not plug into a normal SATA motherboard port. You need a SAS host bus adapter or a backplane that speaks SAS - an LSI/Broadcom HBA in IT mode is the usual answer. A SATA drive will run on a SAS controller, but not the other way round. HBA and IT-mode guide
| Drive | Interface | Cond | $/TB | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seagate BarraCuda 8TB ST8000DMZ04 | SATA-6G | Refurb | $29.39 | $235.10 | Buy |
| Dell M40TH 8TB SAS 12G 512E | SAS-12G | Refurb | $30.63 | $245.00 | Buy |
| HGST Ultrastar He8 8TB SAS 12G NAS | SAS-12G | Refurb | $31.25 | $249.99 | Buy |
| WD WD Red 8TB WD80EFAX | SATA-6G | Refurb | $31.25 | $249.99 | Buy |
All 8TB drives we track, ranked by cost per terabyte.
Part of the Toshiba line we track.
The Toshiba MG08 8TB is a 8TB SAS-12G enterprise drive at $46.13/TB - CMR recording makes it safe for all RAID levels and NAS deployments. New unit with full 5-year warranty.
Against every other drive we have an in-stock price for today, this one is cheaper per tb than 25% of them (61 of 248). The cheapest we can currently buy is $12.50/TB; the middle of the market is $36.97/TB.
These are third-party figures about the retail market as a whole, quoted and dated. They are not our own measurements and they do not describe this specific drive.
Resolved against manufacturer compatibility lists we read and dated, capped at 4. Vendor-listed means the manufacturer names this exact part number; fit-verified is our own check of form factor, interface and recording technology against a published requirement. Neither is a guess, and a drive the registry cannot resolve shows nothing here rather than a maybe. How compatibility actually works
Yes. The MG08 8TB uses CMR recording which is fully compatible with all RAID levels.
5-year manufacturer warranty.
Compatible with any server or workstation equipped with a SAS HBA or SAS backplane. Tested with Dell PowerEdge, HPE ProLiant, Supermicro and IBM System x platforms.