The squeak of innovation: Western Digital launching helium-filled hard drives
2012.09.17.08:16
Western Digital has announced that it intends to bring hermetically sealed, helium-filled hard drives to market next year. These new drives are being touted as paving the way for unprecedented capacities, lower power consumption, and potentially higher spindle speeds. Western Digital is positioning the technology as more of a platform than a single product and intends to showcase the new drives in cloud environments and corporate data centers.
Seagate breaks 1 terabit barrier, 60TB hard drives possible
2012.03.20.08:15
That breakthrough is managing to squeeze 1 terabit (1 trillion bits) of data into a square inch or space, effectively opening the way for larger hard drives over the coming years beyond the 3TB maximum we currently enjoy. How much of an improvement does this storage milestone offer? Current hard drives max out at around 620 gigabits per square inch, meaning Seagate has improved upon that by over 50%. However, that’s just the beginning.
Hitachi 4TB
2011.12.12.12:25
Hitachi has launched the world’s largest 3.5-inch hard drive.
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2011.10.14.08:15
Existing hard drives max out at 3TB at the moment. TDK’s HAMR promises to take that to 6TB, but Dr Yang has found a way to increase the data density of a drive to 3.3 Terabit/inch2, effectively meaning 18TB hard drives are possible.
Advanced Format Drives
2011.06.14.08:02
As hard drive technology advances, much of the noise in the storage space revolves around solid-state drives, but there is another change taking place as well — the hard drive industry’s transition to a 4K sector model from the old 512-byte model.
Hybrid hard drives finally come of age
2010.10.20.22:49
Once hailed as the perfect compromise between pricey solid-state drives and cheaper-but-slower platter models, hybrid hard drives quickly became a technological flash in the pan.