HGST announces 10TB HDD for data-centers.

[looney]

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HGST has announced 3 new HelioSeal hard drives, the three hard drives come in capacities of 6, 8 and 10TB.

All of these drives use HGST's HelioSeal technology witch means that they are filled with helium instead of air.

Because of this the platters can be stacked closer to each other than with a conventional air filled hard drive.

 

The 8TB Ultrastar He8 will be available right away together with the smaller 6TB model.

 

A 10TB model with 7 densely stacked platters, has also been announced but is still in the final phase of testing at HGST.

This 10TB model will have a 12Gbit/s sas interface and 128MB cache.

 

According to HGST the new series of drives will offer that best dollar per gigabyte that you can currently get for enterprise grade hard drives.

 

 

The high storage capacity of the 8 and 10TB hard drives is possible due to two techniques.

As stated above, HelioSeal technology fills the drives with helium to reduce the heat developed by air-resistance within the drive.

 

HGST also used a storage technology called shingled magnetic recording (SMR), in which data fields on a platters partially overlap.

According to competitor Seagate this technology will allow them to produce 20TB + hard drives around the year 2020.

 

HGST thinks that all their drives will be filled with helium by the year 2017, this also applies to their consumer range. 

 

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Source(s) / Full article:

https://tweakers.net/nieuws/98359/hgst-kondigt-10tb-hdd-en-pci-e-ssd-voor-datacenters-aan.html

http://www.hgst.com/science-of-storage/next-generation-data-centers/10tb-smr-helioseal-hdd

http://www.hgst.com/science-of-storage/next-generation-data-centers/ultrastar-sn100-series-pcie-ssd

[AlwaysFSX]

Still waiting on those vacuum drives to come out...

[TheGamingBarrel]

Beautiful thread is going to be more beautiful

[Levent]

yay even cheaper cloud storage

[Sidiox]

Good post

 

Also this HDD tech is good, because usually new tech starts in the business side then comes to the consumer, i'd love higher capacity drives

[Tataffe]

Filled with helium? If one of those bursts, Linus goes ultrasonic.

[dizmo]

Wish they'd released some pricing information.

Right now I'm thinking about dual 6tb WD Red's but this might be worth waiting for.

[Thorium19]

Wow, this is pretty good considering people were boasting of 6TB less than a year ago.

If I could get two of these in a NAS, I could join the 10TB club with a single raid 1 array 

[AlwaysFSX]

Filled with helium? If one of those bursts, Linus goes ultrasonic.

Nah, he's already moved on to all solid state storage.

[rashdanml]

Excellent for my future media server. 

[RH00D]

Wish they'd released some pricing information.

Right now I'm thinking about dual 6tb WD Red's but this might be worth waiting for.

Honestly, I'm expecting it to be a minimum 2 years before these cpacities come to consumer drives, and even longer for when it will have a reasonable price. I would go for the 6 TB Reds now.

[Kingofpants]

Why helium, helium is expensive. They should use hydrogen.

Edit: Or a vacuum

[rashdanml]

Edit: Or a vacuum

Do you honestly think that's cheaper? Actually creating a vacuum and sealing it involves quite a bit of work. 

[UnknownEngineer]

Still waiting on those vacuum drives to come out...

 

Why helium, helium is expensive. They should use hydrogen.

Edit: Or a vacuum

Creating a vacuum is a bit trickier, also AFAIK the read/write head needs air or some sort of gas at the very leas to lift from the disk to the correct height. It won't do that in a vacuum.

[The_Strict_Nein]

Why helium, helium is expensive. They should use hydrogen.

Edit: Or a vacuum

Hydrogen is highly explosive. That's why not.

[EChondo]

Aw man, SAS?

 

Guess I'll settle for the 6TB...

[TheInverseKey]

HGST is a re-brand of Hitachi soo WD 6TB for me then.

[RH00D]

HGST is a re-brand of Hitachi soo WD 6TB for me then.

What's wrong with Hitachi?

[looney]

HGST is a re-brand of Hitachi soo WD 6TB for me then.

Nothing wrong with Hitachi, especially since they work together with WD.

[cubercaleb]

HGST = Hitachi

 

Don't care.

[cubercaleb]

Nothing wrong with Hitachi, especially since they work together with WD.

Not they suck.

[looney]

Not they suck.

Do you have any facts to back that argument in form of a independent study?

 

Hitachi had few bad year a few year back, since than they have gotten on the same level as most hard drive manufacturers.

HGST is now actually on the for-front when it comes to development, they are on the cutting edge of HDD design with very good reliability especially when it comes to the enterprise drives that they make.

[cubercaleb]

Do you have any facts to back that argument in form of a independent study?

 

Hitachi had few bad year a few year back, since than they have gotten on the same level as most hard drive manufacturers.

HGST is now actually on the for-front when it comes to development, they are on the cutting edge of HDD design with very good reliability especially when it comes to the enterprise drives that they make.

Personal experience with Hitachi drives failing, data corruption on new drives, etc. Also, that fact that they had to rename themselves to get away from the bad stigma should be a sign that they suck

[Mooshi]

Hope they are built to stand the test of time. I would personally be paranoid trusting this much data to a single drive. A lot of this in a raid array, though wow.

[looney]

Personal experience with Hitachi drives failing, data corruption on new drives, etc. Also, that fact that they had to rename themselves to get away from the bad stigma should be a sign that they suck

As I said, they had a bad period but that's over now, and yes they probably did change the name for that reason but that does not change the fact that they no longer have any problems.

Since they where taken over by WD I have not heard any complaints about them and I have some at home as well and they work like a charm.

 

Please don't bash a company unless your bad experience is recent (within the last year or with the current product line).

Companies and their products / quality can and do change.

 

Hope they are built to stand the test of time. I would personally be paranoid trusting this much data to a single drive. A lot of this in a raid array, though wow.

These drives are purpose built for very large data storage as in a big data-centers filled with them for cloud storage purposes so a lot of RAID to keep stuff safe.

I've read a while back that WD is recommending HGST drives for large storage (petabyte scale) cloud solutions instead their own enterprise drives which they recommend for smaller server with just a few drives.

So WD seems to be pretty confident in HGST.