The why of helium-filled - or, as HGST's marketing styles it, HelioSeal - disk drives is easy. Helium has 1/7th the density of air. That means: Less drag on disks and head actuators. Less drag means ...

HGST on Tuesday significantly expanded its storage offerings with the introduction of several new high-capacity hard drives, including the world's first 10-TB hard drive, and new flash storage ...

With the Highest Storage Density of Any Hard Drive Today, HGST Delivers 1.5TB Capacity in a Standard 2.5-inch 9.5mm Form Factor, Targeting Notebooks, External Hard Drives, Gaming Consoles and ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 15, 2012 – HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company, NYSE: WDC) today announced a new family of CinemaStar™ 2.5-inch hard disk drives ...

With the Highest Storage Density of Any Hard Drive Today, HGST Delivers 1.5TB Capacity in a Standard 2.5-inch 9.5mm Form Factor, Targeting Notebooks, External Hard Drives, Gaming Consoles and ...

This should be a gas for the storage-hungry: Western Digital's HGST unit, which makes disk storage for the enterprise market, has begun shipping helium-filled 3.5-inch hard drives with a massive ...

Cloud backup and storage provider Backblaze has published its latest batch of drive reliability data. The release covers failure information for the 70,000 disks that the company uses to store some ...

The HGST helium drive - HUS726060ALS640 - is available online for $729 a copy or 12.15¢/GB. Compared to $160 4TB desktop drives at 4¢/GB it's silly high - but that's the wrong comparison. The helium ...

HGST (Formerly Hitachi's hard drive division) has been talking about its helium storage devices for several years and the firm is finally ready to ship the new drives for enterprise deployments. The ...

More than a year after first announcing the technology, 6TB helium-filled hard drives from Western Digital subsidiary HGST started shipping on Monday. The new 3.5-inch Ultrastar He6 hard drives are ...

HGST announced a new family of CinemaStar 2.5-inch hard disk drives for the traditional and small form factor audio/video and consumer electronics markets. The new CinemaStar family includes the ...

Companies like HP and Netflix are looking to HGST's hard drive for their needs. Nov. 4, 2013— -- Helium is useful for more than party balloons and funny voices. It's used to cool down nuclear ...