6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Take Flight

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 4, 2013 @04:26AM 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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Re:Helium Leaks by Anonymous Coward · 2013-11-04 04:50 · Score: 0, Troll

They do have a 5 year warranty.
That's awesome! So, when a drive fails and I lose time/data I can get a replacement drive with an equally high failure rate. I might have to replace the drive every year, but it's under warranty, so the failure rate is acceptable?