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Seagate Releases 6TB Hard Drive Sans Helium
Lucas123 (935744) writes "Seagate has released what it said is the industry's fastest hard drive with up to a 6TB capacity, matching one released by WD last year. WD's 6TB Ultrastar He6 was hermetically sealed with helium inside, something the company said was critical to reducing friction for additional platters, while also increasing power savings and reliability. Seagate, however, said it doesn't yet need to rely on Helium to achieve the 50% increase in capacity over its last 4TB drive. The company used the same perpendicular magnetic recording technology that it has on previous models, but it was able to increase areal density from 831 bits per square inch to 1,000. The new drive also comes in 2TB, 4TB and 5TB capacities and with either 12Gbps SAS or 6Gbps SATA connectivity. The six-platter, enterprise-class drive is rated to sustain about 550TB of writes per year — 10X that of a typical desktop drive."
Its just sad that in the 21st century we are still using Gbits/inch^2 and not Gbits/cm^2.
Finally a way to detect if your drive is about to crash: you start to sound like a munchkin.
Table-ized A.I.
Its just sad that in the 21st century we are still using Gbits/inch^2 and not Gbits/cm^2.
Why is that sad? An inch is 2.54 cm, so a square inch is 2.54*2.54=6.45 cm^2. If we switched from inches to cm, instead of 6 TB, this disk would not even hold 1 TB.
Fun Fact, retail helium for recreational used is often salvaged from used 'pure' helium from MRI machines and such.
So children's party balloons are filled with medical waste, yay!
Whoosh!
And you got the unit conversion wrong! Gold!
He is nice because it is also very low viscosity
But she is nicer than him, that's for sure, mainly because her viscosity is spot on.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Imperial or metric bits?
You think you could afford enough of these to facilitate raid 5, eh? Lol.
Fun Fact, retail helium for recreational used is often salvaged from used 'pure' helium from MRI machines and such.
So children's party balloons are filled with medical waste, yay!
I wondered where Big Bang Theory got most of their scripts for Sheldon. Now I know ... Slashdot!
At 1000 bits per square inch, to get 6TB you need about a third the size of Manhattan.
It takes a couple of hours to get up to 5800RPM, but when that bitch is spinning don't even try to tilt your computer.
Do you have ESP?
In a big storage server, that could amount to few kilos, perhaps
Absolutely. That's astute! They're going for cloud storage.
I'll link the above post next time you pretend to know what is going on in server rooms so that everyone can have a laugh.