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HGST Announces 10 Terabyte PMR Hard Drive

posted by martyb on Thursday December 03 2015, @10:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the now-more-storage-and-still-with-enterprisey-stuff dept.

takyon writes:

HGST, a division of Western Digital, has announced its second 10 terabyte helium-filled hard drive. The Ultrastar Archive Ha10 , announced back in June, was a shingled magnetic recording (SMR) drive. Now HGST has launched the Ultrastar He10, a 10 TB helium-filled HDD using traditional perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR). With a total of 7 platters, each platter stores around 1.43 TB. AnandTech reports:

Hard drives are struggling to reach the 10TB capacity point with traditional PMR technology. While Seagate did announce a few 8TB PMR drives earlier this quarter, it really looks like vendors need to move to some other technology (shingled magnetic recording or heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR)) in order to keep the $/TB metric competitive against the upcoming high-capacity SSDs. As of now, helium seems to be the only proven solution causing minimal performance impact and HGST appears to have a strong hold in this particular market segment.

Ars Technica has some speculation about the price:

There's no price listed for the Ultrastar He10, but it'll probably cost about £600/$800. The first helium-filled drives were extortionately expensive, but the He8 is now down to around £400/$550, which isn't bad for an enterprise drive (these things have a 5-year warranty and other such niceties, too). Seagate's shingled 8TB drive is much cheaper (£170/$200), but you get a shorter warranty and less enterprisey stuff.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by WillR on Thursday December 03 2015, @02:31PM

    by WillR (2012) on Thursday December 03 2015, @02:31PM (#271351)

    BTW, cramming seven platters into a single unit means hotter operation and heavier mechanical stress.

    That's why they fill the case with helium - much lower friction than air, so they can pack more platters in without changing the heat/power budget.

    I would worry more about lifespan of the seal than initial stress testing, helium is notoriously difficult to keep contained.

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  • (Score: 1) by J053 on Friday December 04 2015, @01:26AM

    by J053 (3532) <{dakine} {at} {shangri-la.cx}> on Friday December 04 2015, @01:26AM (#271649) Homepage
    I wonder how well these will work at high altitudes.