The HGST drive has 5 disks, whereas many 3.5 inch drives have only 4 disks.
The density of helium is one-seventh that of air, delivering significant advantages to HGST's sealed-drive platform.
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Further, HGST is working on the high-end PCI Express (PCIe) SSD product line.
In preparation for this meeting both HGST (now part of Western Digital) and Seagate Technology introduced 12 Gbps SAS SSDs for enterprise applications.
Q1 2011 unit share was about the same with WD plus HGST and Toshiba growing slightly and Seagate plus Samsung shrinking a bit.
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In addition, flash memory companies such as Fusion-io, HGST, Intel, LSI, Micron, OCZ, Samsung, SanDisk, Seagate and STEC had exhibits in the main exhibit hall.
We've seen some exotic developments as a result, but HGST wants to go the extra mile by relying on two breakthroughs at once.
HGST, part of Western Digital, has announced that it will make He-filled HDDs that can support a couple more disks in a 5 disk 3.5-inch HDD package.
Also HGST announced their 3.5-inch 4 TB SATA enterprise HDD.
In addition, the inherent benefits of the platform, including the helium fill, allow HGST to significantly improve datacenter TCO on virtually every level: capacity, power, cooling and storage density.
ENGADGET: HGST develops helium-filled, high-capacity hard drives: no, they won't float away
Thanks to the hard work of our research and engineering teams, our initial pilot lines are up and operational, putting HGST in position to introduce this technology first into the market.
ENGADGET: HGST develops helium-filled, high-capacity hard drives: no, they won't float away
With products expected in 2013, the new platform enables HGST to go beyond its award-winning five-platter design, providing a path for higher capacity storage and lower customer TCO for years to come.
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At the event, HGST is comparing the power consumption between a helium-filled drive and an equivalent air-filled drive side-by-side, demonstrating a reduction in power consumption for the helium-filled drive of 23 percent.
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The new Travelstar HDD is available in the HGST Hard Drive Retail Kit as well as in the award-winning Touro Mobile Pro USB 3.0 external storage solution for simple add-on storage and backup.
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These numbers are composite numbers from Seagate and Western Digital and include Hitachi GST (and IBM before that companies HDD business became part of Hitachi GST) until 2009 when HGST quit publically reporting their ASPs.
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Perfect for users demanding high performance and high capacity from their portable storage device, the G-Technology G-DRIVE mini features a sleek compact and durable all-aluminum enclosure and storage capacities up to 1TB using HGST Travelstar 7, 200 RPM drives.
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With industry-wide challenges in scaling current areal density technologies, this new platform allows HGST to design seven-platter drives in a standard 3.5-inch form factor that will cost-effectively extend the capacity and cost-per-gigabyte curve for many product generations to come.
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Housing the new HGST Travelstar hard drive, the new 1TB, 7200RPM-based Touro Mobile Pro offers high-performance and massive storage capacity for storing hours of high-definition videos, thousands of photos, songs and movies, and tons of video games with room to spare.
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By first splitting the molecules into very small lines and then using an equally rare nanoimprinting technology to put them into circular tracks, HGST can create platters with a 10 nanometer-wide bit pattern that's twice as dense as current hard drives.
There will likely be some fall-out for high performance HDDs in these markets and the HDD companies such as Seagate, HGST (part of Western Digital) and Toshiba are introducing their own enterprise SSD products to stay competitive in this high margin business.
"Computers may come and go, but your personal data remains and continues to grow exponentially, which is why you need reliable storage solutions to help store, preserve and manage your most valued data, " said Mike Williams, vice president and general manager, HGST Branded Business.
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If we take 2010 aggregate company unit shipments and add the unit shipments of Seagate to Samsung and Western Digital to HGST, we find the combinations should have resulted in about 41% unit share for Seagate plus Samsung, 48% unit share for Western Digital plus Hitachi GST and 11% unit share for Toshiba.
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