HGST beats Seagate to market with helium-filled 10TB hard drive
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Re: HGST beats Seagate to market with helium-filled 10TB hard drive
#2As a provider of cloud storage (who actually owns the infrastructure) this is both exciting and frustrating...
Exciting because we love the idea of deploying a 450TB zpool in a 4U chassis ...
Frustrating because we will have to keep reworking our price per GB.
With that in mind, our new attic/borg[1] support has dropped down to 3 cents per GB, per month to kind-of-sort-of match S3 pricing[2].
Re: HGST beats Seagate to market with helium-filled 10TB hard drive
#3Can someone comment as to why it needs to be filled with helium?
Re: HGST beats Seagate to market with helium-filled 10TB hard drive
#4Can someone comment as to why it needs to be filled with helium?
From the actual article:
"... but HGST's use of helium, which offers significantly less air resistance to the spinning platters, is probably the main one."
Re: HGST beats Seagate to market with helium-filled 10TB hard drive
#5Can someone comment as to why it needs to be filled with helium?
Lower air resistance/friction and lower turbulence for the heads.
Re: HGST beats Seagate to market with helium-filled 10TB hard drive
#6How well have the first generations of helium drives lasted?
I'm wary of trusting my data to something that relies on incredibly good gas seals. But if there are no observed reliability issues, it seems that problem has been solved.
Re: HGST beats Seagate to market with helium-filled 10TB hard drive
#7How well have the first generations of helium drives lasted? I'm wary of trusting my data to something that relies on incredibly good gas seals. But if there are no observed reliability issues, it seems that problem has been solved.
They come with a 5 year warranty and 2.5M hours MTBF rating, which says something about the manufacturer's opinion of their reliability.
Re: HGST beats Seagate to market with helium-filled 10TB hard drive
#8As a provider of cloud storage (who actually owns the infrastructure) this is both exciting and frustrating... Exciting because we love the idea of deploying a 450TB zpool in a 4U chassis ... Frustrating because we will have to keep reworking our price per GB. With that in mind, our new attic/borg[1] support has dropped down to 3 cents per GB, per month to kind-of-sort-of match S3 pricing[2]. [1] http://www.stavros.i…
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Re: HGST beats Seagate to market with helium-filled 10TB hard drive
#9Re: HGST beats Seagate to market with helium-filled 10TB hard drive
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lower air resistance/friction and lower turbulence for the heads.
So, what will happen if it leaks? Will it just get slow or stop working?
It will probably stop working. Aerodynamics are crucial to the way a hard disk works. One cannot not simply increase the density of the gas inside the drive by 10x and expect it to continue working.