{"id":90607,"date":"1999-12-31T00:45:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartoffice.com.au\/western-digital-introduces-10-tb-helium-filled-hard-drive\/"},"modified":"1999-12-31T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-30T13:45:00","slug":"western-digital-introduces-10-tb-helium-filled-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.strixdevelopment.net\/smartoffice\/1999\/12\/31\/western-digital-introduces-10-tb-helium-filled-hard-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Digital Introduces 10 TB Helium-Filled Hard Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western Digital (WDC) has announced that it is now shipping the world&#8217;s first 10 TB perpendicular magnetic recording hard disk drive (HDD), the HGST Ultrastar He10 HDD.<font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">In announcing the <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana\">Ultrastar He10 <\/font>today, WDC stated it expects its 10 TB drives &#8220;to be a key enabler of video, photo, business and other cloud-based applications, and will be a cornerstone for public and private cloud deployments moving forward&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the first 10 TB drop-in ready HDD, the HGST Ultrastar He10 HDD provides the highest capacity, lowest power consumption per TB and the highest reliability rating of all HDDs on the market,&#8221; WDC states of its new offering.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is WDC&#8217;s third-generation helium drive, which defines the best enterprise-capacity hard drive in the <\/p>\n<table style=\"\" align=\"Left\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"492\" width=\"365\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/news.smarthouse.com.au\/resources\/articleimages\/0ikj472x_embeded_image_1.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"492\" width=\"365\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WDC states that the Ultrastar He10 offers a 25 per cent increase in capacity over the previous generation and uses 56 per cent fewer watts\/TB than traditional air-filled HDDs, while offering a 2.5 million mean-time-between-failures rating, along with a five-year warranty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our HelioSeal platform has defied next-generation expectations around capacity, reliability and power in HDDs,&#8221; Brendan Collins, HGST vice president of product marketing, commented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were the first to recognise the benefits of helium and have pushed the boundaries while others are scrambling to catch up. 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