HGST ships 6TB Ultrastar Helium-filled Hard Drives

HGST has announced that it has started shipping the 6TB Ultrastar He6   hard disk drive (HDD). The new Ultrastar He6 drive features HGST’s 7Stac disk design with 6TB. Ultrastar He6 drive is the hermetically sealed helium-filled HDD that can be cost-effectively manufactured in high volume.  The breakthrough development of the hermetically sealed process is arriving just in time as key market requirements are colliding with HDD areal density constraints.
 
Brendan Collins, VP  Product Marketing, HGST, said, With ever-increasing pressures on corporate and cloud data centers to improve storage efficiencies and reduce costs, HGST is at the forefront delivering a revolutionary new solution that significantly improves data center TCO on virtually every level  capacity, power, cooling and storage density – all in the same 3.5-inch form-factor. Not only is our new Ultrastar helium hard drive helping customers solve data center challenges today, our mainstream helium platform will serve as the future building block for new products and technologies moving forward. This is a huge feat, and we are gratified by the support of our customers in the development of this platform.
 
The amount of data that companies need to store is growing exponentially, but IT budgets remain flat. With 6TB, the new Ultrastar He6 lowers data center TCO on virtually every level.
 
The 6TB HGST Ultrastar He6 hard drives are now generally available.