Just in time for Christmas, no idea of the Black Friday prices .
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/04/helium_drives_from_hgst/#!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/04/helium_drives_from_hgst/#!
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That's never happening. It's constantly being produced through natural radioactive decay (uranium 238 for example). Alpha particles are essentially just a helium nucleus.With the global supply of helium dwindling to the point of the element becoming extinct, I reeeeeally don't want to see the price tag of these.
That's never happening. It's constantly being produced through natural radioactive decay (uranium 238 for example). Alpha particles are essentially just a helium nucleus.
That's gonna be a long RAID sync when one of those suckers dies...
That's never happening. It's constantly being produced through natural radioactive decay (uranium 238 for example). Alpha particles are essentially just a helium nucleus.
I expect a full day. Although I would not use 5XXX RPM drives in my work raid servers. That is unless the raid was just a backup.
Unless the drive is "wounded" and goes to 35 MB/sec as some of my 3 TB seagates did on recovery
Drive doing a background recovery of UREs? I have seen that. Weekly raid checks have reduced most of this type of bad behavior on my small sample of around 200 drives.
That sounds about right. What exactly does the drive attempt to do about the read error?
6Gbit/s SAS or SATA interface
50 per cent more capacity than the Ultrastat 7K4000
A 23 per cent reduction in power use
At 640g it is lighter than the 7K4000
It runs 4-5⁰C cooler
How do you fart into a sealed bucket?
Just a bit of info on these drives that is public, they are still under nda for specifics.. They are actually 6-7 degrees cooler idle and 3-4 load than the 4TB 7200rpm US drives. I can't verify the actual power decrease % but it makes sense based on the temps. The drives are noticeably but not not significantly lighter than a standard 4TB US (No Helium jokes please). The external speeds are at least on par with their 4TB brethren for random and better for sequential. Another interesting point is they can be completely submerged in certain liquids for liquid cooling which you will hear more about coming soon.
Any idea why HGST is still not using 1TB platters?
Any idea why HGST is still not using 1TB platters?
These 6TB drives will only be viable at <$300. Personally, I wouldn't spend more than $250 for one.
Helium tends to leak through seals and HGST has had to develop hermetic seal technology to stop this from happening. This means the He6 could be used in a liquid cooling scheme as the liquid cannot get into the drive and damage it. Current air-cooled drives are unsuitable as the cooling liquid could penetrate the drive.
Anyone else catch that the article author has no concept of basic physics or phase change cooling?
My biggest worry would be the hermetic seal. I mean if that is somehow compromised over time. Also would it have at least the same ability to tolerate vibration since the heads will be flying closer to the platters (or would they not)?
What about:
-Price
-RPM
-Noise
-Transfer rates
-Heat
Any info on that?
... So it's a win.
Should wait and see...
everyone start farting in a sealed bucket and harness the power to fuel your everyday lives