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HGST unveils 6TB HDD filled with Helium

article published on 4 November, 2013

Western Digital's HGST announced its new hermetically sealed (air-tight) 6TB Ultrastar He6 hard disk drive (HDD) that's filled with helium gas instead of air. Filling it with the noble gas instead of air makes it possible for the Ultrastar He6 to use a 7-Disk design (7Stac) rather than a 5-Disk design, with helium being only one-seventh the density of air. The high-capacity HDD is ... [ read the full article ]

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dEwMe
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_ 		5. November 2013 @ 13:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I imagine he was speaking in a very high pitched tone...lol
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Just my $0.02,

dEwMe
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