HGST HAS released its first 10TB helium-filled drive for general objective data centre use. Impressively, unlike other hard drives of this capacity, the He10 uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR), which has been the hard drive recording standard for almost 10 years and provides the best performance.
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Designed by Western Digital’s HGST subsidiary – formerly known as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, prior to its acquisition – the Ultrastar He10 10TGB drive was announced back in September previous year, but shipped in only sample quantities to interested customers.
Because the tracks are overlapped, the read head on a hard drive using SMR can be half the size of a typical one.
“Our HelioSeal platform has defied next-generation expectations around capacity, reliability and power in HDDs”, said Brendan Collins, VP of product marketing at HGST.
The Ultrastar He10 will be sold as a standalone drive as well as part of HGST’s Active Archive System and is definitely not intended for regular consumer use which is why the price tag on it would be considerably high since even the much slower 6TB He6 costs well above $400. Important benefits brought to end users of this third generation 10TB HelioSeal drive are said to be; a 25 per cent increase in capacity over previous gen helium drives, and energy savings as it uses 56 per cent fewer watts/TB than traditional air-filled HDDs. “It redefines enterprise capacity HDDs, showing the industry where storage devices need to go, to stay in front of the future that data growth is hurtling forwards”.
The new drives support both SATA 6.0GB/s and SAS 12Gb/s. Other enterprise features are available with instant secure-erase and self-encryption over SATA with TCG.
For more information on the Ultrastar He10 HDD, http://www.hgst.com/products/hard-drives/ultrastar-he10. The company addresses ever-changing market needs by providing a full portfolio of compelling, high-quality storage solutions with effective technology deployment, high efficiency, flexibility and speed. For more information, please visit www.hgst.com and www.wd.com.
One GB is equal to one billion bytes and one TB equals 1,000 GB (one trillion bytes).
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Ultrastar He10 is ideal for object storage implementations given its massive capacity and reliability rating.
