helium filled hard disk drives

[PandaBear]

Originally Posted By: ueberooo
Originally Posted By: Rick in PA
They're in production. Looks like they figured out how to seal them (a five-year warranty):
The Register


Looks awesome. I'd take these 6 TB suckers over any solid state junk, anytime.

If plumbers can keep boilers and radiators from exploding, then a team of highly paid folks with a bunch of engineering degrees can solve this problem of pressure variation.


It is a matter of cost. You can solve it at $150 each but not at $40 each.

 

[Subdued]

Originally Posted By: PandaBear
Originally Posted By: Subdued
HGST?

They were the brains behind the maligned IBM DeskStar 75GXP (AKA DeathStar) which ended up being the most unreliable drive in desktop storage history. The problem there is they were also one of the fastest desktop drives of their time as well.

I have no doubt their quality has improved but the mention of HGST always makes me giggle al ittle bit


Hard drive in the enterprise storage vs consumer computer are different quality and grade (and speed and price). Why they keep the HGST brand has little meaning on who they are selling to (most likely the server farms). I have not heard of any companies selling bad SCSI drives ever (but they tends to pay $200-500 each to begin with).


I'm quite aware of the difference, and yes there have been bad runs of enterprise level drives as well.

Although those "bad" drives are typically firmware problems. But a firmware defect is still a defect.

You haven't lived until you've had to run firmware updates on hundreds of shiny new servers because hard drives can spontaneously go offline for no reason at all.

Or a bad drive firmware somehow causing the fans in your server to run at 100% until they burn out

These are just two recent examples of the garbage I've dealt with in the enterprise...

 

[BearZDefect]

Originally Posted By: PandaBear
... I have not heard of any companies selling bad SCSI drives ever ...

Toshiba?


Originally Posted By: Subdued
...

You haven't lived until you've had to run firmware updates on hundreds of shiny new servers because hard drives can spontaneously go offline for no reason at all.

Or a bad drive firmware somehow causing the fans in your server to run at 100% until they burn out...

Those are nightmares.

 

[OVERKILL]

It is also fun when they release several firmware releases to address drives randomly falling out of the arrays they are a part of but don't actually fix the problem.......

(Seagate).

 

[Mystic]

If they ever come out with those holographic hard drives we will not need the cloud,' and the National Security Agency will be upset because people will be storing data locally instead of the 'cloud' where the government agencies can get at it.