Western Digital has released the world's first 10-terabyte HDD models with helium instead of air

The company Western Digital is one of the most famous manufacturers of hard drives. Even in 2012, the company said 's intention to release the hard drives, which is located inside would helium rather than air. A little later were released several models of HDD, a couple of days ago, the corporation заявила about the release of a new model of HDD, capacity of 10 terabytes, with helium instead of air.

According to the manufacturer, this hard drive consumes less energy than "air" model, in addition, the hallmark "of helium» HDD was the relatively low price is based on 1 GB capacity. The new model is called Ultrastar He10, at the moment it is the most capacious HDD in the world.

Such carriers are positioned primarily as a hard drive for enterprise customers who are constantly demanding more storage capacity for corporate data. Applicable in Winchester from WD's SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) has a relatively low speed dubbing, which is not particularly affects the organization of archives.



A helium drives have several advantages, among which are the following items:

- Drives HDD package will be thinner. This means increasing the number of plates, and this in turn will increase the capacity of the disc by approximately 26%. The weight of the "helium" hard drive with seven plates will be equal to the weight of the hard drive with the air inside and the five plates;





- Lightweight wheels package will allow the hard drive to save energy on securing the system. Thus, experts estimate savings of about 23%. When idle normal disk with five plates consumes about 7 watts. The same hard drive with helium and seven plates will consume only 5 watts;

- The case of the HDD is sealed, which means that they can be used in the immersion liquid cooling system.



Unfortunately, there is no release date or price of the company's devices were not reported. Most likely, the first model 10 TB HDD helium will not be too cheap, but after some time, the price of hard drives will decline, as is usual in such cases. Especially because competitors do not sleep - the struggle among producers for each gigabyte cheaper storage media is now serious.

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