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HGST Unveils World’s First 6TB Hard Drive Packing Helium
HGST Unveils World’s First 6TB Hard Drive Packing Helium
Cooler and more energy efficient. By Matt Peckham @mattpeckhamNov. 04, 2013 HGST, a Western Digital subsidiary, just announced a helium-filled 6TB hard drive — the world’s first discretely 6TB drive, mind you. Naturally, the helium part’s driving a bunch of pun-blighted headlines absurdly comparing hard drives to balloons, but there’s reason to be cautiously excited about the helium angle: The point of trapping helium in a hard drive is to make the drive more energy efficient as well as increase its capacity. That’s not easily done, and HGST is taking a victory lap to celebrate the fact that it’s first to market with the Ultrastar He6 hard drive. Continued: http://techland.time.com/2013/11/04/...acking-helium/ |
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