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HGST Announces Delivery of First 10 TB Helium/Shingled HDDs

posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 10 2015, @11:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the remember-when-they-said-spinning-drives-were-finished? dept.

takyon writes:

Western Digital subsidiary HGST has announced the Ultrastar Archive Ha10, a 10 terabyte helium-filled shingled magnetic recording (SMR) hard disk drive. It rotates at 7,200 RPM and has a 256MB cache.

HGST has also released libzbc, "a simple library providing functions for manipulating disks supporting the Zoned Block Command (ZBC) and Zoned-device ATA command set (ZAC)."

The new drive is intended for enterprise bulk storage that is infrequently accessed. SMR tracks are partially overlapped which can hurt drive performance. The Ha10 has lower sequential write speeds than the He8. Seagate has already released 8 TB SMR drives.

What's next? 12 TB? 16 TB? HAMR?

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday June 11 2015, @01:43AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Thursday June 11 2015, @01:43AM (#194789) Homepage

    Sealed but with electrical current going every which way all throughout the drive? Buy a dud that arcs out somewhere inside and then have the brownie-sized equivalent of a pipe-bomb running in your tower.

    The performance gains would be worth the risk!

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