The innovation of filling up the enclosure with Helium gas is to reduce drag when the rotating platters are spinning at thousands of times per minute, which also allows to add more platters in the same 3.5-inch enclosure, up to 7 disks instead of 5, achieving a maximum capacity of 6TB.
And because the way they are built, the HDDs are sumergibles, which makes them perfect for immersion-cooled data centers.
The new Ultrastar He6 Helium-filled drives are being target to corporations, some companies already using this new hermetically sealed hard drives are Huawei, HP, Netflix, and CERN. However, we’ll soon see these drives on traditional desktop computers. Source HGST a Western Digital company All content on this site is provided with no warranties, express or implied. Use any information at your own risk. Always backup of your device and files before making any changes. Privacy policy info.
