World's highest capacity 6TB Helium Filled Hard Disk Drive(HDD) by HGST

The amount of data need by companies to store is growing exponentially, but IT budgets remain flat. This was overcome with the help of HGSTs 6TB HDD, a low 5.3 idle watts, a reduced weight of 640g, and running at 4-5°C cooler, the new Ultrastar He6 lowers data center total cost of ownership (TCO) on virtually every level.

On November 4, 2013 HGST, a Western Digital company announced that it is shipping the 6TB Ultrastar He6 hard disk drive (HDD). Last year company announced the developing of helium filled hard disk.

The Ultrastar He6 drive is the world's first hermetically sealed helium-filled HDD which is cost-effectively manufactured in high volume. The breakthrough development of the hermetically sealed process is arriving just in time due to market requirements are colliding with HDD areal density constraints. We know helium is one-seventh the density of air, along with less turbulence and drag placed on the head arms and spinning disk stack. So the hard drive needs only a very less amount power and allowing seven disks to be contained within a standard 3.5-inch enclosure instead of the usual five. HGST refers to this as its 7Stac disk design.

Some of key features of helium filled HDD when compared to air filled HDD given by HGST is

>>Highest Capacity HDD on the Market; 6TB, Seven-disk Design, Providing the Best TCO.

>>Lowest Power Consumption with Best Watts-per-TB(23 percent lower idle power per drive and 49 percent better watts-per-TB).

>>Best Density Footprint in a Standard 3.5-inch Form Factor(50 percent higher capacity).

>>Lighter Weight than a Standard Five-disk 3.5-inch Drive (50g lighter even with two more disks, offering 50 percent more capacity and 38 percent lower weight-per-TB).

Company also adds it is available with SAS 6 Gb/s and SATA 6 Gb/s interface versions.

Source: HGST

World's Thinnest HDD from Seagate

On Nov 6, 2013 Seagate Technology announced that, its Samsung® HDD division is shipped the new 2.5-inch Spinpoint™ M9T, which at 9.5 mm thin is the world’s thinnest 2TB hard drive.  This also Offered in capacities of 1.5TB and 2TB. It's OEMs, channel system integrators and a thin design, high-capacity storage is solution ideal for external storage, notebook integration and upgrades, desktop, and gaming system applications.

Senior product line manager of Samsung HDD, Dave Frankovich said that, “The M9T combines the highest areal density shipping in a single storage device with an innovative design that fits into mainstream notebook applications. While other 2TB are solutions on the market are 15 mm thick, the vast majority of mobile devices are designed to use a 9.5 mm drive, with the M9T, those devices can now have 2TB of storage, enabling a richer computing experience".

General manager of Samsung HDD division, Doug DeHaan said that, “Samsung HDD with the new Spinpoint M9T continues to lead the effort in aerial density in a small form factor to supply our channel partners and customers with the highest-capacity and thinnest storage solution in the market".

“With consumer demand for storage capacity continuing to grow in mobile applications, the M9T answers this demand and is positioned to fulfill capacity needs in virtually any application". SATA 6Gb/s interface and microactuation to ensure fast, consistent hard drive performance, along with NoiseGuard™ and SilentSeek™ technologies to deliver ultra-quiet operation are the salient features in this technology.

The Spinpoint M9T hard drive is currently available in the Samsung Internal Drive product line, which includes the M3 Portable and P3 Portable external drives, as well as with select partners. Get more informations by clicking this >>go here or go here<<