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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) by urza9814 on Thursday June 11 2015, @03:34PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Thursday June 11 2015, @03:34PM (#195003) Journal

    Still, at the risk of sounding like Bill Gates, (640K aught to be enough for anybody) I am not convinced the average human needs 10TB, nor could they fill it in a life time of writing, or even copying everything they ever read in their life.

    I've *added* about 4TB of data to my systems in just the past year or two. hundreds of movies over a gig each; dozens of games that can be tens of gigs each; virtual machines that are tens of gigs each; hundred of gigs of backups...My laptop has 1.25TB, I bought it less than a year ago, and I ran out of disk space about six months ago.

    Now imagine five or ten years from now when we've got movies for the Oculus Rift. You can easily fill a few terrabytes with DVD rips; imagine how much space you're going to use storing 3D movies, or full VR worlds. Hell, a single uncompressed blu-ray can be over a hundred gigs these days...

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