Form factor, interface and rotational speed before the capacity · review
TOSHIBA MG06ACA10TEY 10 TB, the largest drive of the batch, on a bare SATA line review
A ten-terabyte enterprise-capacity drive whose single bullet reprints the title and leaves out the cache, and whose interface is named as SATA without a generation or a rate.
The bottom line The biggest drive here and the least documented interface. Capacity, form factor and speed are solid; a bare SATA line, a cache figure printed once and no duty figures leave the enterprise claim unsupported by the page itself.
On the listing
A ten-terabyte internal drive from an enterprise capacity range in 3.5-inch form, at 7200 rpm with 256 MB, on a SATA interface; and a single bullet reprinting the same line, capacity, form factor, interface and speed alike, with the cache figure absent from it.
The word SATA, with nothing after it
The other three drives on this shelf print SATA 6 Gb/s. This one prints SATA. The connector is the same either way and the rate the interface negotiates is not stated, which on the largest mechanism here is the figure most worth having.
A cache figure stated once
256 MB in the title, absent from the bullet. The bullet is otherwise a word-for-word repetition, which makes the omission visible rather than harmless: the page had one chance to confirm its secondary figure and did not take it. The title figure is what is reported above.
Ten terabytes, and what an enterprise range usually carries
The title places the drive in a range built for continuous service. Ranges of that kind are normally sold on three numbers — an annual workload rating, a statistic in hours and a warranty term — and none of the three is on this page. What is left is a capacity, a speed and a claim about the family the drive belongs to.
Before ordering
Confirm the SATA generation with the seller and take the part number to the datasheet for the workload rating. The capacity is the reason to buy this drive, and the page supports it with less than the three rivals beside it.
Availability
Priced from 300 € to 313 € across the German, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon stores the day this page was checked.
In the American and British Amazon catalogues with no live offer against it: the reference exists, nobody is filling it.
Every figure in this section is what Keepa held on the day this page was last updated. Stock and prices move without warning.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 10 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
Where it holds up, and where it stops
Strengths
Ten terabytes on a single 3.5-inch mechanism, the largest capacity in this batch and the only one above eight
The part number is printed in both the title and the bullet, which makes the maker’s own datasheet straightforward to reach
Capacity, form factor and rotational speed are all stated twice and never disagree with each other
Compromises
The interface is the bare word SATA, with no generation and no rate, on a shelf where the three rivals all print 6 Gb/s
The single bullet drops the cache figure it could have repeated, leaving the page’s most useful secondary value stated once
An enterprise range is named in the title and no workload rating, MTBF or warranty term follows it
Specifications
Capacity
10 TB — printed in the title and in the single bullet, in the maker’s unit and reported here in that unit. It is the largest capacity in this batch by two terabytes
Form factor
3.5-inch — printed in the title and in the single bullet
Height
Not published on the listing — no measurement in millimetres appears beside the form factor in inches
Interface
SATA — printed in the title and in the single bullet, both times as the bare word. No generation and no rate in gigabits per second follows it, where the other three drives on this shelf all print 6 Gb/s
Rotational speed
7200 rpm — printed in the title and repeated in the single bullet
Cache size
256 MB — printed in the title only. The single bullet reprints the rest of the title and stops before the cache figure, so the page states it once where it states everything else twice
Stated workload rating
Not published on the listing — the title names an enterprise capacity range and no annual figure in terabytes appears anywhere on the page
Warranty length
Not published on the listing — no term of any length appears in the title or in the single bullet
Stated MTBF
Not published on the listing — no figure in hours appears, on a drive whose title places it in an enterprise range
Stated acoustic figure
Not published on the listing — no decibel value appears, on a 7200 rpm drive of the largest capacity here
Stated idle power
Not published on the listing — no figure in watts appears, and consumption is never raised
Amazon reference
B0DTK8VPRM (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
EAN
0703670866586
The questions that come up before an order
Does a bare SATA line tell a buyer enough?
It settles the connector and the cable, which is usually what matters for fitting a drive. It does not settle the rate the interface negotiates, and on a 10 TB drive the difference between generations is worth confirming. Three of the four drives on this shelf print the figure; this one prints the word alone.
What does an enterprise capacity range usually add?
Normally a workload rating in terabytes per year, a figure in hours, and a longer warranty term — the three quantities that justify the price of a drive built for continuous service. None of the three appears on this page, so the range name is the claim and the figures behind it are elsewhere.
4 TB · 3.5-inch · 7200 rpm · CMR · 256 MB cache · SATA 6 Gb/s · 300 TB per year workload · 255 MB/s sustained
A four-terabyte desktop drive that publishes its recording method, its annual workload rating and its maximum sustained transfer rate, and that carries a recovery service where a warranty term would be.
Best for: A desktop machine that writes a great deal — video work, large game libraries, editing scratch space — where the recording method and the annual duty both need to be known before purchase.
4 TB · 3.5-inch · 7200 rpm · 64 MB cache · SATA 6 Gb/s · one bullet, which repeats the title · no duty figure of any kind
A four-terabyte drive whose single bullet reprints its title word for word, publishing every mechanical figure and not one figure about what the drive is specified to withstand.
Best for: A bulk volume in a desktop machine where the drive will not be pushed hard, bought by someone comparing on figures alone and getting the rest from the datasheet.
8 TB · 3.5-inch · 7200 rpm · 256 MB cache · 550 TB per year workload · OptiNAND and AllFrame named · interface not published
An eight-terabyte drive with the highest published workload rating in this batch, whose four bullets say nothing about the product and whose interface is never named.
Best for: A machine that writes continuously — a recorder, a surveillance store, a busy archive — where the annual duty figure is the deciding line and the interface can be confirmed elsewhere.
