Western Digital Release 8TB Helium Filled Consumer HDDs

Western Digital Release 8TB Helium Filled Consumer HDDs

 

Western Digital Release 8TB Helium Filled Consumer HDDs for their newest WD Red NAS hard Drives,  giving this drive lower power consumtion and higher storage densities than previous Western Digital Hard Disks. 

The He technology used in this new Western Digital drive seems to be based on the same technology that HGST used in their first Helium filled hard disks, which has finally made it into Western Digital Devices after a lengthy merger with HGST. This will be the first consumer grade HDD to use Helium, offering several reliability improvements. 

  

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May of you will wonder what Helium has to offer in consumer HDDs, but in essence it comes down to reliability and performance, with Helium filled drives being completely sealed to reduce environmental effects on HDD reliability and also reducing air friction between the spinning hard drive platters, which reduces wear and thermal productions while also decreasing power draw. 

We can see in the picture below that the new enclosure for Western Digital’s Helium filled consumer drives is almost identical to that used by HGST, offering a much more clean look than that of standard air filled HDDs. 

 

    

 

 

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