M7D8Y: Dell 2TB 12Gbps SAS 3.5in LFF 7200 RPM (Toshiba MG04SCA20EN)

M7D8Y is the Dell part number for a 2TB 3.5 inch SAS hard drive with Toshiba model number MG04SCA20EN, an Enterprise Capacity drive in 512 native format. The dual-port SAS-3.0 interface runs at 12.0 Gbit/s and falls back to 6.0, 3.0 and 1.5 Gbit/s.

The spindle turns at 7,200 rpm within 0.1 percent, the buffer is 128 MiB and the sustained data transfer speed is 195 MiB/s. Average latency is 4.17 ms and the logical block length is 512, 520 or 528 bytes. The workload rating is 550 TB per year, MTTF is 1,400,000 hours and the non-recoverable error rate is 10 errors per 10^16 bits read, for 24 x 7 operation.

Read and write power is 11.8 W maximum and low-power idle is 6.1 W typical, from 5 V and 12 V supplies each within 5 percent. The body is 26.1 mm high, 101.6 mm wide and up to 147 mm long, weighing at most 720 g, and it operates between 5 and 55 C with 70 G of shock tolerance for 2 ms.

The target workloads are tier 2 business-critical servers and capacity-optimized data center storage. The 4TB drive of the same series is the 0F9W8 and the Sanitize Instant Erase 2TB version is the HHX14.