First 6TB HDD with Helium

Looks to be on par with WD blacks in terms of speed.

I notice it's made in Singapore, that's a first as I had no idea WD/HGST had a fab there.

Last time I seen that was Seagate drives 10 years ago, maybe they bought one their plants.

Looks to be running really chilly too for having so many platters.
 
I'm seriously considering this drive, but I'm also torn with the consideration that the Seagate equivalent will out in Q2 which is supposed to have one less platter than the He6.

I prefer SAS myself, and the SAS variant of the He6, the 0F18370, is much harder to come by than the SATA version (0F18355) and is way more $$$ when it is available. Not the typical 10% premium either, often at prices approaching double.

I may just wait for the Seagate SAS version to show up...
 
I would be shocked if WD does not borrow this tech and offer up their own flavor shortly as well.
 
I heard you can't use these to store audio files though, it makes all the voices sound funny.

This is pretty impressive though. I personally don't have the need yet for drives that big (I only do raid, so I'd be buying at least 2) but it's great to see them always expanding on spindle drive tech.
 
I'm seriously considering this drive, but I'm also torn with the consideration that the Seagate equivalent will out in Q2 which is supposed to have one less platter than the He6
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Hmm. I expected Seagate to use larger than 1TB platters..
 
Red Squirrel said:
I heard you can't use these to store audio files though, it makes all the voices sound funny.

This is pretty impressive though. I personally don't have the need yet for drives that big (I only do raid, so I'd be buying at least 2) but it's great to see them always expanding on spindle drive tech.
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Ahaha took me a second but that's a good one. Supposedly if these are mass produced it can be a bad thing because earth has a limited supply of helium. Most waste comes from balloons because once its released to the air it goes into the atmosphere never to be seen again.
 
Actually new helium is created constantly. Alpha particle radioactive decay byproduct is just a helium nucleus. Throw a couple of electrons on it, and voila, a new atom of helium...
 
One of my customers at work have been using these for months now, each server has about 36 of these drives. Their reliability has actually been quite good. We expect 1 out of 100 to fail, but its been way better than that.
 
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