Areal density increases are coming slowly as the drive industry gears up for patterned media and heat-assisted magnetic recording. Both require large investments before mass production. Instead, the ...

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 ...

Western Digital subsidiary HGST has claimed that filling hard drives with helium instead of air makes them more, not less reliable. After shipping more than one million drives based on proprietary ...

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 ...

Western Digital is outting proud that that massive volume sized Helium-filled HDDs (10TB already sampling) pass a 2.5 Million-hour MTBF. Now shipping its second generation HelioSeal Platform drives, ...

Western Digital Corporation acquired Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Hitachi’s hard drive business, for $4.5 billion back in 2012. According to regulations laid down by the Chinese Ministry of ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and now a Western Digital company, NASDAQ: WDC) is leading the disk drive industry to the forefront ...

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 ...

With certain exceptions, talk of advanced hard drive technology regularly has a tough time escaping research labs. Western Digital's HGST is promising a much more tangible project that could boost ...

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 ...

The HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 (HUS724040ALS64) is a SAS 3.5" 7,200 RPM HDD in a traditional 3.5" form factor. The 7K4000 is geared for a multitude of uses in the datacenter, from NAS, RAID, disk-to-disk ...

Western Digital’s HGST division has released the world’s first helium-filled 10TB hard drive for everyday use—assuming you have about £600 burning a hole in your pocket, anyway. Meanwhile, despite ...