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6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Take Flight
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."
another way to squander our helium reserves :s
Finally a real cloud drive!
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
all the MP3 sound like The Chipmunks.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
And helium. Shut up I'm telling you how it works.
Now I know where to store all my high pitched MP3's :D
Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.
You're thinking hydrogen. This is HELIUM!
H = OH THE HUMANITY
He = OH THE CHIPMUNK HUMANITY
You should Rush right out and get one.
Can I call this planned obsolescence yet?
I have drives much older than that, and I'm not worried that they are engineered to fail soon (they will, but not by design)
I've always wondered why they didn't just use a near vacuum enclosure
The heads have to have air or some gas to make them "fly". In a vacuum, the heads grind the oxide off the platters.
That's the main drawback of these drives. They can make Barry White sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Without a fluid filling, the heads would crash into the platter.
It seems the universal secret to success, whether you're throwing a ball or building a hard disk drive, is to bring the liquor out early and keep it comin'!
Christ, Sterling Mallory Archer, what part of its helium not hydrogen don't you understand?
With all that helium leaking in the server room.
about 24 hours longer than the warranty.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Oh the bright side, they make Alvin and the Chipmunks inaudible.
The downside? Mysterious uptick in neighborhood dog noise.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
It actually makes all your MP3s sound like they were recorded by Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
Oh the high-pitched and squeaky humanity.
Sig. Sig. Sputnik
And Darth Vader will sound like an angry Jerry Seinfeld.
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Welcome to Slashdot... where every advance is obvious and every technology is attempted to be debunked by high school level science knowledge.
Additionally, if some technology is not 100% perfect, it's automatically completely useless. :P