MG09ACA18TE data recovery
Recovering data from the Toshiba MG09ACA18TE (18TB), a 3.5-inch SATA and SAS drive from the Toshiba MG enterprise range. Free evaluation in our central London clean-room lab, with courier collection from anywhere in the UK.
About the MG09ACA18TE
| Make | Toshiba |
| Family | Toshiba MG enterprise |
| Model | MG09ACA18TE |
| Capacity | 18TB |
| Size | 3.5-inch |
| Connection | SATA and SAS |
| Made | 2014–today |
| Used in | Enterprise / server |
What usually goes wrong
Helium-filled from 14TB upwards. These come to us from servers and large RAIDs, where we image every disk before rebuilding.
If your MG09ACA18TE is clicking, beeping or not spinning, switch it off. Every restart can damage the platters further. Don’t open it and don’t run recovery software on it.
How we recover the MG09ACA18TE
We use PC-3000 systems from ACE Lab, the professional standard for data recovery labs. PC-3000 lets us repair a drive’s firmware through its service area, read damaged drives one head at a time, and copy weak drives slowly and safely without stressing them. Physical repairs such as replacing read/write heads are done in our clean room in central London, so the drive never leaves our lab.
We always work on a copy of the drive, never the original, and you get a list of recovered files to check before you pay for the recovery.
Prices
| Evaluation | Free |
| Clean-room diagnostic | £79 |
| Deleted files, working drive | £99 |
| Logical recovery, 1TB–4TB | £150–£250 |
| Physical recovery, single driveplus donor drive if needed | £450 |
All prices + VAT. Full price list
On its own, this drive is priced like any other hard drive. As part of a RAID or NAS, see RAID & server or NAS prices.
Other Toshiba MG enterprise models
- MG03ACA300 3TB
- MG04ACA400E 4TB
- MG06ACA800E 8TB
- MG07ACA14TE 14TB
- MG08ACA16TE 16TB