Western Digital Announces World's First 10TB Helium-Filled Hard Drive (techgage.com)

Deathspawner writes: Western Digital today announced a new, helium-filled enterprise HDD that allows for 10TB capacities without using the SMR method, sticking to industry standard PMR. SMR, or Shingled Magnetic Recording drives, can not typically be used natively by the OS or disk controllers, and instead often require extra software and/or firmware updates. This makes their broad adoption limited, since the drives are not drop-in replacements for the far more ubiquitous Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR). WD's latest enterprise drive, sold as the HGST Ultrastar He10, uses the PMR storage method, and as such is a full drop-in replacement for any standard hard drive.

Comments

Just one problem:

[Locke2005]

All the audio tracks you store on the drive sound really high-pitched and squeaky when you play them back...

Seems legit

[ShaunC]

Tethering yourself to a bunch of helium-filled drives is a great way to get into the cloud.

Re:Great until we run out of Helium

[aicrules]

and suddenly slashdot was silent.....