Ars Technica reports that the enterprise-grade hard disk was finally unveiled today after several years of development. Seagate’s main rival, Western Digital, launched its own helium-filled ...

While many people rely on solid state drives, or SSDs, for a variety of reasons (especially if they want their video games to load quickly), hard disk drives (HDDs) haven't outlived their usefulness ...

Seagate is now shipping its 10TB helium-filled hard drive in volume, and it's hit this target without using performance-penalizing technologies like SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording). While early high ...

Toshiba is prepping a 14TB conventionally recorded hard drive for next year. It'll be the company's first helium-filled drive and packs a whopping nine platters in a 3.5-inch form factor. Share on ...

same thing with a hard drive read/write head - the disk is spinning so fast it's pulling along a layer of air, and the head gets a gentle push-back from that air. if you bump the drive while it's ...

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ: STX), a world leader in storage solutions, today announced it is now shipping in volume its 10TB helium enterprise drives— the ...

Collins: New product expected to “eliminate entire racks of servers and storage in data centers” A unit of Irvine-based Western Digital Corp. has attracted an impressive list of customers to test a ...

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Western Digital Corp.’s breakthrough helium-based drives are getting strong demand from the world’s largest data center customers, ensuring the Irvine-based company a steady pipeline of business in ...

All things considered, I'm impressed they are able to handle the platter's thermal expansion on that tiny scale. Closely monitoring temperature, and using a clever ...