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Seagate Adopts Helium For a 10TB HDD (computerworld.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the noble-gas-to-the-rescue dept.

Lucas123 writes: Seagate has finally adopted helium as an inert gas in its data center drives and has used it to produce a 10TB HDD for cloud-based data centers. Seagate had relied on its shingled magnetic recording technology for high-capacity drives right up until its last 8TB HDD, even after WD has used helium in several iterations of its hermetically sealed, 3.5-in HDDs. The lighter-than-air helium reduces friction on platters and allows more to be used. In Seagate's new HDD, it crammed seven platters 14 heads, a 25% increase in disk density over its 8TB drive.

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  1. Careful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Last time I bought a helium hard drive, it floated away and I never saw it again.

    1. Re:Careful by bobbied · · Score: 4, Funny

      You think you have it bad.... I purchased 100 of them, tied them to my lawn chair in a RAID 5x5x4 Array configuration and now I'm freezing at 15,000 feet with no way to get down and a cell phone battery that's running out. HELP!!!!

      --
      "File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
    2. Re:Careful by toonces33 · · Score: 4, Funny

      So what you are telling us is that you are storing your data in the cloud?

  2. Re:Oh yeah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    404 not found. I'm guessing that means it leaks.

  3. Re:Oh yeah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... the internal helium sensors on the disk farms that I've looked at show no degradation or leakage so far: SMART 22 shows 100. ...

    Hooray.

    Those sensors were manufactured by Volkswagen....