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HGST UltraStar He6 6TB HDD Review

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PCMarket Hong Kong 5/6/2014

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HGST UltraStar He6 is the world first 6 TB hard drive. It is an enterprise level product and it cost 5580HKD. It is twice as expensive as HGST 4TB model.

The drive was fitted with 7 860GB Disk.

Because the inside of the hard drive is filled with Helium, there is less drag while the disk spin and decreased heat output and power consumption.

The 6TB drive weight only 640g. It is lighter than HGST 4TB (5disk) 50g. Compare to Seagate 4TB (610g), it is only 30g heavier.

HGST states that, compare He6 to other 4TB drives operation temperature is 4-5C lower, ide watt is 23% lower, and noise 30% lower. The drive read & write watt is only 7.3W and is lower than 4TB (typical 10W) drives.

Other spec includes:

Internal transfer 177MB/s (5MB/s faster than 4TB)

64MB cache

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HD Tune Pro shows He6 have no advantage over 4TB drives

Crystal Disk Mark shows 4K Read & Write is faster than typical 4TB. Others have no advantage.

----------------------------Seagate 6TB on Sale for US300----------------------

Available  on Amazon

Drive features 6TB 6 disk (1TB per disk), 7200rpm and 128MB cache.

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Main System:

Intel Core i7 4930k

28GB DDR3-1333

ASUS X79-Deluxe

ASUS STRIX GTX1080

OCZ Toshiba RD400 256GB

Samsung 850 Evo 500GB

Toshiba 2TB

Antec EDGE750

Corsair H55

Corsair Graphite 230T

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still waitng for non enterprise version

COME ON ive been waiting fo soo long :(

If your grave doesn't say "rest in peace" on it You are automatically drafted into the skeleton war.

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still waitng for non enterprise version

COME ON ive been waiting fo soo long :(

Here...........

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Main System:

Intel Core i7 4930k

28GB DDR3-1333

ASUS X79-Deluxe

ASUS STRIX GTX1080

OCZ Toshiba RD400 256GB

Samsung 850 Evo 500GB

Toshiba 2TB

Antec EDGE750

Corsair H55

Corsair Graphite 230T

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