CrAKeN Posted April 26, 2017 Share Posted April 26, 2017 One-upmanship drives a lot of innovations in the computer business. And if there’s one example of it that we’re always happy to read about, it’s the battle for the biggest hard drive. For a while now, you’ve been able to purchase 10TB drives. Western Digital was first out of the blocks late in 2015, but Seagate answered back a few months later. But why be satisfied with a piddly 10TB when you can cram an extra 20% more data into the same 3.5-inch bay? WD’s at it again, folks! They announced today that their latest helium-infused hard drive, the HGST-branded Ultrastar He¹², is now shipping, and it packs an impressive 12TB. Thanks to the company’s newest iteration of HelioSeal, they were able to squeeze in an extra platter (bringing the total in the Ultrastar HE¹² to 8). The He¹² isn’t just bigger than its predecessors. It’s also more efficient. According to Western Digital’s numbers, it consumes around 7.2W while it’s working and 5.3W while idle — compared to 9.1W and 5.7W on their 8TB model. This is no gutless desktop drive, either. It’s an enterprise-class beast with an MTBF of 2.5 million hours, and it’s available with both SATA and SAS (with support for 12Gb/s throughput) interfaces. While Western Digital has once again claimed the hard drive capacity crown, Seagate is definitely going to return the volley. In fact, they’re planning to ship a 16TB drive next year. They hadn’t given a firm date when we reported on it last, but the target appears to be the first half of 2018. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisam Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 Interesting to know. I actually didn't know about these high capacity hard drives. Made a search and here is it WD 10Tb Gold 7200 rpm SATA III 3.5" INTERNAL DATACENTER HDD...USD 458.98 I bought in 1983 my first EXTERNAL 5 1/2" floppy drive for about 200 USD for my Tandy Color Computer 64Kb (2 x 32 kb) RAM. It used one sided floppies with 180 kb of capacity for each floppy! Adjusting inflation values, guess it was about the same worth as this "monster". Cabinet sized hard drives for "mainframes" were about 20 Mb and you had to pay about 2000 or more USD for one but you had to install them in site with controlled temperature to avoid overheating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 12 TB...Heavy stuff... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronY-Man Posted May 1, 2017 Share Posted May 1, 2017 About damn time ...I was looking for a heavy duty HDD ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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