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6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Take Flight

Posted by samzenpus on from the building-it-better dept.

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."

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  1. Helium Leaks by bfmorgan · · Score: 5, Insightful

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

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    1. Re:Helium Leaks by MightyYar · · Score: 5, Insightful

      So, when a drive fails and I lose time/data

      I'm not hiring you to set up my systems.

      Most sane people would take a spare off the shelf and pop it into the array and drop the bad drive into the dead soldiers pile for later RMA.

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  2. Re:What took so long? by sjames · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Actually it's deceptively hard. Helium has a way of diffusing right through an air tight seal.