Helium HDD
Toshiba this week announced the industry's first hard drive featuring flux-control microwave-assisted magnetic recording (FC-MAMR) technology. The new MG09-series HDDs are designed primarily for nearline and enterprise applications, they offer an 18 TB capacity along with an ultra-low idle power consumption. The Toshiba MG09-series 3.5-inch 18 TB HDD are based on the company's 3rd generation nine-platter helium sealed platform that features 18 heads with a microwave-emitting component which changes magnetic coercivity of the platters before writing data. The HD disks are made by Showa Denko K.K. (SDK), a long-time partner of Toshiba. Each aluminum platter is about 0.635 mm thick, it features an areal density of around 1.5 Tb/inch2 and can store up to 2 TB of data. The MG09 family also includes a...
Western Digital Ships 12 TB WD Gold HDD: 8 Platters and Helium
Western Digital has begun to ship its WD Gold HDD with 12 TB capacity to partners and large retailers. The 3.5” drive relies on the same platform as the...
63 by Anton Shilov on 9/16/2017
WD Adds Helium-Filled 10 TB NAS HDDs to WD Red, WD Red Pro Lineups
Western Digital has announced two new helium-filled hard drives targeting consumer and business NAS applications. The new WD Red and WD Red Pro HDDs increase capacity of WD’s NAS...
19 by Anton Shilov on 5/22/2017
Western Digital: Sales of Helium-Filled HDDs Accelerating, 15M Sold So Far
Western Digital recently announced that it had sold 15 million helium-filled hard drives, indicating that sales of such HDDs are accelerating. Since the launch of the HGST HelioSeal platform...
29 by Anton Shilov on 5/13/2017
Western Digital Starts Shipments of HGST Ultrastar He12 12 TB HDDs
Western Digital on Wednesday announced that it had begun to ship its HGST Ultrastar He12 hard drives with 12 TB of capacity. The HDDs are the first drives to...
15 by Anton Shilov on 4/28/2017
Western Digital Expands Purple Lineup with a 10 TB Helium-Filled HDD
Western Digital has expanded its Purple lineup of hard drives, aimed at video surveillance applications, with a 10 TB helium-filled HDD. The drive is optimized for write-intensive workloads and...
8 by Anton Shilov on 4/13/2017
Seagate Announces Enterprise Capacity 12 TB HDD: 2nd-Gen Helium-Filled Hard Drives
Seagate has introduced its second-generation of helium-filled HDDs. These drives will be aimed at capacity-demanding enterprise and cloud applications, and the new drives store up to 12 TB of...
21 by Anton Shilov on 3/16/2017
Seagate Confirms Plans for 12 TB HDD in Near Future, 16 TB HDD Due in 2018
The CEO of Seagate has confirmed plans to release new nearline harddrives with 12 TB capacity in the coming months, and HDDs with 16 TB capacity over the course...
31 by Anton Shilov on 1/30/2017
Western Digital Announces Ultrastar He12 12 TB and 14 TB HDDs
Western Digital on Tuesday introduced its fourth-generation enterprise-class hard drives filled with helium. The HGST Ultrastar He12 HDD can store up to 12 TB of data, whereas its version...
26 by Anton Shilov on 12/9/2016
G-Technology G-Drive with Thunderbolt 8TB Capsule Review
G-Technology started using HGST's helium-filled hard drives in their direct-attached storage (DAS) products earlier this year. The product lines utilizing these 8TB and 10TB drives include: G-Drive with Thunderbolt (single...
7 by Ganesh T S on 10/7/2016
Western Digital Adds Helium-Filled WD Gold 10 TB HDD to Lineup
Western Digital has this week introduced its new 10TB datacenter-class helium-filled WD Gold hard drive. This drive, according to WD, boasts higher performance compared to its predecessor combined with...
34 by Anton Shilov on 8/4/2016
G-Technology Introduces G-Drive and G-RAID External HDDs up to 20 TB
G-Technology this week introduced several new models of its G-Drive and G-RAID products with Thunderbolt 1, USB 3.0 or Thunderbolt 2 soltions. These are direct attached storage (DAS) devices...
16 by Anton Shilov on 7/22/2016
Seagate BarraCuda Pro 10TB Helium HDD Capsule Review
Seagate has introduced a trio of 10TB hard drive models today, as part of the launch of their new Guardian series. There are three main parts to the series...
69 by Ganesh T S on 7/19/2016
Seagate's New 'Guardian Series' Portfolio Brings 10TB Helium HDDs to Consumers
Our recent interview with Seagate's CTO, Mark Re, gave us an idea about of the future of the hard drive market. As late as Q1 2016, Seagate had considered...
18 by Ganesh T S on 7/19/2016
The Evolution of HDDs in the Near Future: Speaking with Seagate CTO, Mark Re
In the recent months, Seagate has made several significant announcements regarding the future of HDD technology and unveiled a number of important products. In particular, late last year the...
91 by Anton Shilov on 7/6/2016
Seagate Begins Volume Shipments of Helium-Filled HDDs, Reveals Their Final Specs
Seagate has started volume shipments of its first helium-filled hard drives. They were announced earlier this year. The new HDDs are available to all interested parties, which means that...
65 by Anton Shilov on 4/28/2016
Western Digital Introduces Its First Helium-Filled HDDs for Consumer Applications
Helium-filled hard drives have a number of mechanical advantages compared to traditional HDDs, but they are also more expensive to manufacture. Western Digital subsidiary HGST introduced the world’s first...
34 by Anton Shilov on 3/1/2016
Seagate Unveils 10 TB Helium-Filled Hard Disk Drive for Cloud Datacenters
Seagate Technology on Wednesday introduced its first helium-filled hard disk drive. The novelty is designed for cloud datacenters that require maximum amount of storage and enhanced reliability. By filling...
40 by Anton Shilov on 1/13/2016
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