High on helium
Seagate has a new hard drive capacity option, 10 terabytes, to help enterprises stock cloud-based data centers. The new drive is Seagates first foray into 10TB territory, and like HGSTs 10TB option, its filled with helium.
The 3.5-inch drive features seven platters and 14 read/write heads. Helium is sealed inside to create a quiet and turbulence-free environment, one that both reduces friction and resistance on all those platters and delivers a lower power-per-TB ratio and weight specifications for a 10TB model.
Seagate says its new drive helps improve performance by incorporating advanced caching algorithms specifically intended to help cloud data center managers manage large buckets of data more quickly. It also features technologies designed to minimize costs associated with power and cooling costs during idle time.
"At-scale data centers are faced with the challenge of efficiently storing massive amounts of unstructured digital data," said John Rydning, IDCs research vice president for hard disk drives. "Seagates new 10TB HDD for enterprise data centers is its first product to employ helium technology and will help data center customers to expand storage capacity economically."
The 10TB drive is available with choice of 6Gbps SATA and 12Gbps SAS interfaces. Both boast a MTBF (mean time before failure) rating of 2.5 million hours. Performance specs havent been disclosed.
Seagate also didnt say how much the new drive costs, though its already lining customers. Huawei and Alibaba will be among the first to deploy the 10TB drives.
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