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

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @12:45PM 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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Re:Oh yeah! by BarbaraHudson · 2016-01-13 13:15 · Score: 5, Interesting

Sealing helium in ANYTHING for a significant amount of time is pretty much impossible. Helium is a monatomic gas. These drives will leak.

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Re:Oh yeah! by cheater512 · 2016-01-13 14:46 · Score: 5, Interesting

Wow why wouldn't the skilled engineers at Seagate and Western Digital think of stuff like that?
They should employ you on the spot!