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HGST, a Western Digital company, today announced that it is shipping the 6 TB Ultrastar He6 hard disk drive (HDD). Key OEM, cloud and research leaders working closely with HGST to qualify the drive include HP, Netflix, Huawei Unified Storage, CERN, Green Revolution Cooling and Code42, as well as some of the world's largest social media and search companies. 

Revealed in September 2012, HGST's cutting-edge HelioSeal platform provides a path for higher capacity storage for decades to come while significantly lowering customer total cost of ownership (TCO). Leveraging the inherent benefits of helium, which is one-seventh the density of air, the new Ultrastar He6 drive features HGST's innovative 7Stac disk design with 6 TB, making it the world's highest capacity HDD with the best TCO for cloud storage, massive scale-out environments, disk-to-disk backup, and replicated or RAID environments.

 

So 7 platters instead of the usual 3/4 or 5 tops? Man that thing is going to make a lot of noise and vibrate a lot!

 

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Pricing....?  :o

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Pricing....?  :o

 

In the "sell an organ" price range.

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Not affordable.

Santa...???  :rolleyes:

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oh almost bought four 4 TB drives because i was getting sick and tired of waiting

 

some one release this to us NOW !!!

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Now they have a valid reason to tell you not to take it apart, because it will literally die the moment the air-seal is broken xD

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Now they have a valid reason to tell you not to take it apart, because it will literally die the moment the air-seal is broken xD

I wonder what this seal is.... oh shit. 

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Its cool that HDDs will now support higher capacities. Sadly, the article says that there is going to be more noise coming out of the HDDs because of the 7 platters. But HEY, this should result in even cheaper Air-Filled HDDs, right ?

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Do they float in the air? 

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is that going to change the noise they make as well... like higher pitched? lol, as if the noise wasn't high enough

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Oh, Its nice to see new technology being pushed in Hard drives:)

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How does the helium make this possible exactly?

I know it's lower density, but how does that make it possible to stack more drives in the same space?

I'm interested in the science behind this tech.

most likly to do with friction and heat ...

 

guessing its sorta the same reason race cars use nitrogen to fill there tyre's

Its all about those volumetric clouds

 

 

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Woo because hey, we're not already running out of helium...

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Woo because hey, we're not already running out of helium...

was about to say that. 

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Woo because hey, we're not already running out of helium...

I wonder if party stores will carry hydrogen in the future, due to helium shortages. Definitely don't want balloons popping in the room with a birthday cake.

 

Couldn't they just use a low-pressure air environment? Or even switch over to pure nitrogen, would decrease the density by a little (and maybe reduce the risk of an internal hard drive fire, due to lack of oxygen?)

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Woo because hey, we're not already running out of helium...

Typed the words out of my fingers good sir

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Post at /.

 

 

An anonymous reader writes in with some exciting news if you are a storage array manufacturer with a lot of money to spend on hard drives.


"HGST Monday announced that it's now shipping a helium-filled, 3.5-in hard disk drive with 50% more capacity than the current industry leading 4TB drives. The new drive uses 23% less power and is 38% lighter than the 4TB drives. Without changing the height, the new 6TB Ultrastar He6 enterprise-class hard drive crams seven disk platters into what was a five disk-platter, 4TB Ultrastar drive."

This is kinda awesome. Firstly, before I give my own thoughts, here are some insightful comments on the post from Slashdot:

 

 

Helium loves to leak. How long will these have the He pressure they need to work?

 

Here is a relevant portion FTA on what the helium actually DOES (unfortunately not mentioned in the summary):

 
At one-seventh the density of air, helium produces less drag on the moving components of a drive - the spinning disk platters and actuator arms -- which translates into less friction and lower operating temperatures.
 
The helium-drives run at four to five degrees cooler than today's 7200rpm drives, HGST stated.

And those are good insights by the commentators. 

I kind of agree myself. How will these drives react to having the He removed from them? Will they still operate, but at higher temperatures? Or will they fail due to having too many platters which could only be sustained with the He?

Imagine the heat they might put off. That'd be terrible. 

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I want one.

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