Western Digital unveils world`s first highest capacity HDD with 6TB. The Ultrastar He6.
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HGST
delivers the world’s first hermetically sealed, helium hard drive, the
Ultrastar® He6 for massive scale-out environments. Why does helium make a
difference? Helium has only one-seventh the density of air. Replacing
air with helium inside a hard drive dramatically reduces the turbulence
caused by the spinning disk, cuts power consumption and results in a
lower temperature within the disk drive.
The reduction in turbulence for the spinning disk allows HGST to offer a
seven-disk design in a traditional 3.5-inch form factor. In addition to
being the world’s first helium-filled hard drive, HGST Ultrastar He6 is
also the first hard drive in the industry to offer a 6-terabyte
capacity. This design delivers a 50% capacity gain and still reduces the
energy needed to run the drive by up to 23%.
Highlights
Highest capacity HDD on the market; 6TB, seven-disk design, providing the best TCO
Lowest power consumption with best watts-per-TB
- 23% lower idle power per drive
- 49% better watts-per-TB
Best density footprint in a standard 3.5-inch form factor
- 50% higher capacity
Lighter weight than a standard five-disk 3.5-inch drive
- 50g lighter even with two more disks, offering 50% more capacity
- 38% lower weight-per-TB
Applications/Environments
High-density data centers
Massive scale-out data centers
Containerized data centers
Nearline storage applications
Bulk storage
Enterprise and data center applications where density and capacity are paramount
First
Hermetically Sealed, Helium HDD Platform Provides Path for Higher
Capacity Storage, While Significantly Lowering Power and Cooling, and
Improving Storage Density
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (Booth #209), November 4, 2013 – HGST,
a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), today announced that it is
shipping the 6TB Ultrastar He6 hard disk drive (HDD). Key OEM, cloud
and research leaders working closely with HGST to qualify the drive
include HP, Netflix, Huawei Unified Storage, CERN, Green Revolution
Cooling and Code42, as well as some of the world’s largest social media
and search companies. Revealed
in September 2012, HGST’s cutting-edge HelioSeal™ platform provides a
path for higher capacity storage for decades to come while significantly
lowering customer total cost of ownership (TCO). Leveraging the
inherent benefits of helium, which is one-seventh the density of air,
the new Ultrastar He6 drive features HGST’s innovative 7Stac™ disk
design with 6TB, making it the world’s highest capacity HDD with the
best TCO for cloud storage, massive scale-out environments, disk-to-disk
backup, and replicated or RAID environments.
“With ever-increasing pressures on corporate and cloud data centers to
improve storage efficiencies and reduce costs, HGST is at the forefront
delivering a revolutionary new solution that significantly improves data
center TCO on virtually every level – capacity, power, cooling and
storage density – all in the same 3.5-inch form factor,” said Brendan
Collins, vice president of product marketing, HGST. “Not only is our
new Ultrastar helium hard drive helping customers solve data center
challenges today, our mainstream helium platform will serve as the
future building block for new products and technologies moving forward.
This is a huge feat, and we are gratified by the support of our
customers in the development of this platform.”
Through HGST’s innovative and patented HelioSeal process, the Ultrastar
He6 drive is the industry’s first hermetically sealed helium-filled HDD
that can be cost-effectively manufactured in high volume. The
breakthrough development of the hermetically sealed process is arriving
just in time as key market requirements are colliding with HDD areal
density constraints. According to IDC, areal density growth rates have
slowed, and are expected at a rate of less than 20 percent per year from
2011 to 2016. Moving forward, HGST’s helium platform will serve as the
main platform for new technologies like shingled magnetic recording
(SMR) and heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) where HGST will
continue to push the HDD areal density envelope. The helium platform
will also serve as the future building block for new, growing market
segments such as cold storage, a space that HGST plans to address over
the next couple of years.
"HDD industry areal density growth is not keeping pace with the rate of
storage capacity growth in enterprise data centers," said John Rydning,
research vice president, IDC. "HGST's proprietary, new, hermetically
sealed, helium-filled HDD solution – the industry's first helium filled
platform that simultaneously increases capacity while lowering power
consumption and operating temperature – is intersecting the market at a
time when IT managers are seeking out capacious and energy efficient new
disk drives that will help to reduce the total cost of ownership of
enterprise storage systems."
TCOptimized™ - Driving Down Data Center TCO with Helium
The amount of data that companies need to store is growing
exponentially, but IT budgets remain flat. With 6TB, a low 5.3 idle
watts, a reduced weight of 640g, and running at 4-5°C cooler, the new
Ultrastar He6 lowers data center TCO on virtually every level. Key TCO
benefits when compared to a 3.5-inch, five-platter, air-filled 4TB drive
include:
Highest Capacity HDD on the Market; 6TB, Seven-disk Design, Providing the Best TCO
Lowest Power Consumption with Best Watts-per-TB
- 23 percent lower idle power per drive
- 49 percent better watts-per-TB
Best Density Footprint in a Standard 3.5-inch Form Factor
- 50 percent higher capacity
Lighter Weight than a Standard Five-disk 3.5-inch Drive
- 50g lighter even with two more disks, offering 50 percent more capacity
- 38 percent lower weight-per-TB
Pushing New Limits: Ultrastar He6 Enables Liquid Cooling in the Data Center – See the Demo at Cloud Expo, Booth 209
Data center designers and server vendors are continuing to pack more
capability into smaller spaces, and with that, effective cooling is
becoming a new challenge due to hotter components and less space for
efficient airflow. One solution, which has been explored by many, is
liquid cooling. Liquid, which is denser than air, can remove heat more
efficiently and maintain a more constant operating temperature. However,
traditional drives cannot be submerged as they are open to the
atmosphere and would allow the cooling liquid inside, damaging or
destroying the HDD. HGST’s HelioSeal platform provides the only
cost-effective solution for liquid cooling as the drives are
hermetically sealed and enable operation in most any non-conductive
liquid. Today, HGST is working with leading innovators in this space
such as Huawei and Green Revolution Cooling.
HGST Ultrastar He6 Availability
The 6TB HGST Ultrastar He6 hard drives are now generally available. For more information, please visit: http://www.hgst.com
Quote Sheet
“As a leader in Big Data solutions, HP is constantly working to
improve storage densities. Partnering with HGST on their Ultrastar He6
drive allows HP to continue that leadership; delivering cost effective
solutions to keep up with today’s growing storage demands,” said Jimmy
Daley, director of Smart Storage, HP.
“The Netflix Open Connect delivery platform is a highly optimized video
content delivery network. We serve billions of hours of streaming video
per quarter to over 40 million subscribers,” said David Fullagar,
director of Content Delivery Architecture, Netflix. “As part of our
efforts to optimize the delivery ecosystem for Netflix and our Internet
Service Provider partners, we strive to build better and better
streaming appliances. The high storage density and lower power usage of
the Ultrastar He6 hard drives allow us to continue with that goal, and
create a great customer experience.”
“Huawei is very excited to be working with HGST. HGST has invited
Huawei, one of the world's leading information and communications
solutions providers, to become one of the first helium drive customers
in Asia Pacific to collaborate on storage applications utilizing the new
helium hard drives," said Mr. Fan Ruiqi, president of Huawei storage
product line. “With the new HGST Ultrastar He6 drives, Huawei will be
able to expand its product line with a strong competitive offering that
has industry-leading lower power consumption and operating temperature,
and an 87.5% improvement the system storage density compared to the
current industry standard."
“Over the past 20 years, we’ve recorded more than 100 petabytes of
physics data and our projected data growth rate is accelerating,” said
Olof Bärring, IT Department section leader responsible for facility
planning and procurement, CERN. “To scale efficiently, we must deploy
vast amounts of cost-effective storage with the best TCO. We have tested
the helium drive and it looks very promising: it surpassed our
expectations on power, cooling and storage density requirements. We’re
excited about the opportunity to qualify the HGST Ultrastar He6 hard
drive in our environment.”
"Our CarnotJet™ data center cooling system provides simple,
high-performance data center expansion that can be dropped virtually
anywhere in the world," said Christiaan Best, founder and CEO of Green
Revolution Cooling. “Today a data center using the CarnotJet technology
uses half the power of a traditional data center, with servers using 10%
– 20% less power, and the facility cooling using an average of 95% less
power when compared to air. With HGST's new breakthrough 6TB Ultrastar
He6 drives, we will not only be able to offer the highest storage
density per container, but with the drive's low power and low
temperature, we can significantly lower power and cooling costs even
further. These developments equal huge savings for our data center
customers."
“Our CrashPlan enterprise endpoint backup is trusted by thousands of
leading brand-name organizations worldwide,” said Dan Mack, director of
cloud engineering, Code42. “HGST’s current 4TB enterprise-class drives
help CrashPlan quickly scale to meet our customers’ growing data storage
needs. We're now evaluating the new, low-power Ultrastar He6 drives as
they provide 50 percent more capacity in the same 3.5-inch HDD
footprint, while helping reduce power and cooling costs.”
HGST,
a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), develops innovative, advanced
hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, external storage
solutions and services used to store, preserve and manage the world’s
most valued data. HGST addresses customers’ rapidly changing storage
needs by delivering intelligent storage devices that tightly integrate
hardware and software to maximize solution performance. Founded by the
pioneers of hard drives, HGST provides high-value storage for a broad
range of market segments, including Enterprise, Cloud, Data Center,
Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Personal Storage. HGST was
established in 2003 and maintains its U.S. headquarters in San Jose,
California. For more information, please visit the company’s website at http://www.hgst.com.
- See more at: http://www.hgst.com/press-room/press-releases/hgst-ships-6TB-Ultrastar-HE6-helium-filled#sthash.HNQZPaCH.dpuf
Specifications:
Model(s)
HUS726060ALS640
HUS726060ALS641
HUS726060ALS644
HUS726060ALA640
HUS726060ALA641
Interface
SAS 6Gb/s
SATA 6Gb/s
Capacity (GB)
6TB
6TB
Form Factor
3.5-inch
HDD
3.5-inch
HDD
Performance
Reliability
MTBF (M hours)
2.0
2.0
Acoustics
Idle (Bels)
2.0
2.0
Power
Dissipation: Active Idle (W,
Avg)
5.7
5.3
Physical size
Z-Height (mm)
26.1
26.1
Dimensions (width x depth,
mm)
101.6(+/-0.25)x147
101.6(+/-0.25)x147
Weight (g, max)
640
640
Press Release:
HGST Ships 6TB Ultrastar® He6 Helium-filled...
HGST Ships 6TB Ultrastar® He6 Helium-filled Drives for High-density, Massive Scale-out Data Center Environments
- See more at: http://www.hgst.com/press-room/press-releases/hgst-ships-6TB-Ultrastar-HE6-helium-filled#sthash.HNQZPaCH.dpuf
HGST
Ships 6TB Ultrastar® He6 Helium-filled Drives for High-density, Massive
Scale-out Data Center Environments.
First
Hermetically Sealed, Helium HDD Platform Provides Path for Higher Capacity
Storage, While Significantly Lowering Power and Cooling, and Improving Storage
Density.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Cloud Expo Silicon Valley
(Booth #209), November 4, 2013 – HGST, a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), today announced that it is
shipping the 6TB Ultrastar He6 hard disk drive (HDD). Key OEM, cloud and
research leaders working closely with HGST to qualify the drive include HP,
Netflix, Huawei Unified Storage, CERN, Green Revolution Cooling and Code42, as
well as some of the world’s largest social media and search companies.
Revealed in September 2012, HGST’s cutting-edge
HelioSeal™ platform provides a path for higher capacity storage for decades to
come while significantly lowering customer total cost of ownership (TCO).
Leveraging the inherent benefits of helium, which is one-seventh the density of
air, the new Ultrastar He6 drive features HGST’s innovative 7Stac™ disk design
with 6TB, making it the world’s highest capacity HDD with the best TCO for
cloud storage, massive scale-out environments, disk-to-disk backup, and
replicated or RAID environments.
“With ever-increasing pressures on corporate and cloud data centers to
improve storage efficiencies and reduce costs, HGST is at the forefront
delivering a revolutionary new solution that significantly improves data center
TCO on virtually every level – capacity, power, cooling and storage density –
all in the same 3.5-inch form factor,” said Brendan Collins, vice president of
product marketing, HGST.
“Not only is our new Ultrastar helium hard drive
helping customers solve data center challenges today, our mainstream helium
platform will serve as the future building block for new products and
technologies moving forward. This is a huge feat, and we are gratified by the
support of our customers in the development of this platform.”
Through HGST’s innovative and patented HelioSeal process, the Ultrastar He6
drive is the industry’s first hermetically sealed helium-filled HDD that can be
cost-effectively manufactured in high volume.
The breakthrough development of
the hermetically sealed process is arriving just in time as key market
requirements are colliding with HDD areal density constraints. According to
IDC, areal density growth rates have slowed, and are expected at a rate of less
than 20 percent per year from 2011 to 2016. Moving forward, HGST’s helium
platform will serve as the main platform for new technologies like shingled
magnetic recording (SMR) and heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) where HGST
will continue to push the HDD areal density envelope. The helium platform will
also serve as the future building block for new, growing market segments such
as cold storage, a space that HGST plans to address over the next couple of
years.
"HDD industry areal density growth is not keeping pace with the rate
of storage capacity growth in enterprise data centers," said John Rydning,
research vice president, IDC. "HGST's proprietary, new, hermetically
sealed, helium-filled HDD solution – the industry's first helium filled
platform that simultaneously increases capacity while lowering power
consumption and operating temperature – is intersecting the market at a time
when IT managers are seeking out capacious and energy efficient new disk drives
that will help to reduce the total cost of ownership of enterprise storage
systems."
TCOptimized™ - Driving Down Data Center TCO with
Helium
The amount of data that companies need to store is growing exponentially, but
IT budgets remain flat. With 6TB, a low 5.3 idle watts, a reduced weight of
640g, and running at 4-5°C cooler, the new Ultrastar He6 lowers data center TCO
on virtually every level. Key TCO benefits when compared to a 3.5-inch,
five-platter, air-filled 4TB drive include:
Highest Capacity HDD on the Market; 6TB,
Seven-disk Design, Providing the Best TCO
Lowest Power Consumption with Best Watts-per-TB
- 23 percent lower idle power per drive
- 49 percent better watts-per-TB
Best Density Footprint in a Standard 3.5-inch
Form Factor
- 50 percent higher capacity
Lighter Weight than a Standard Five-disk 3.5-inch
Drive
- 50g lighter even with two more disks, offering 50 percent more capacity
- 38 percent lower weight-per-TB
Pushing New Limits: Ultrastar He6 Enables Liquid
Cooling in the Data Center – See the Demo at Cloud Expo, Booth 209
Data center designers and server vendors are continuing to pack more capability
into smaller spaces, and with that, effective cooling is becoming a new
challenge due to hotter components and less space for efficient airflow. One
solution, which has been explored by many, is liquid cooling. Liquid, which is
denser than air, can remove heat more efficiently and maintain a more constant
operating temperature. However, traditional drives cannot be submerged as they
are open to the atmosphere and would allow the cooling liquid inside, damaging
or destroying the HDD. HGST’s HelioSeal platform provides the only
cost-effective solution for liquid cooling as the drives are hermetically
sealed and enable operation in most any non-conductive liquid. Today, HGST is
working with leading innovators in this space such as Huawei and Green
Revolution Cooling.
HGST Ultrastar He6 Availability
The 6TB HGST Ultrastar He6 hard drives are now generally available. For more
information, please visit: http://www.hgst.com
Quote Sheet
“As a leader in Big Data solutions, HP is constantly working to improve
storage densities. Partnering with HGST on their Ultrastar He6 drive allows HP
to continue that leadership; delivering cost effective solutions to keep up
with today’s growing storage demands,” said Jimmy Daley, director of Smart
Storage, HP.
“The Netflix Open Connect delivery platform is a highly optimized video
content delivery network. We serve billions of hours of streaming video per
quarter to over 40 million subscribers,” said David Fullagar, director of
Content Delivery Architecture, Netflix. “As part of our efforts to optimize the
delivery ecosystem for Netflix and our Internet Service Provider partners, we
strive to build better and better streaming appliances. The high storage
density and lower power usage of the Ultrastar He6 hard drives allow us to
continue with that goal, and create a great customer experience.”
“Huawei is very excited to be working with HGST. HGST has invited Huawei,
one of the world's leading information and communications solutions providers,
to become one of the first helium drive customers in Asia Pacific to
collaborate on storage applications utilizing the new helium hard drives,"
said Mr. Fan Ruiqi, president of Huawei storage product line. “With the new
HGST Ultrastar He6 drives, Huawei will be able to expand its product line with a
strong competitive offering that has industry-leading lower power consumption
and operating temperature, and an 87.5% improvement the system storage density
compared to the current industry standard."
“Over the past 20 years, we’ve recorded more than 100 petabytes of physics
data and our projected data growth rate is accelerating,” said Olof Bärring, IT
Department section leader responsible for facility planning and procurement,
CERN. “To scale efficiently, we must deploy vast amounts of cost-effective
storage with the best TCO. We have tested the helium drive and it looks very
promising: it surpassed our expectations on power, cooling and storage density
requirements. We’re excited about the opportunity to qualify the HGST Ultrastar
He6 hard drive in our environment.”
"Our CarnotJet™ data center cooling system provides simple,
high-performance data center expansion that can be dropped virtually anywhere
in the world," said Christiaan Best, founder and CEO of Green Revolution
Cooling. “Today a data center using the CarnotJet technology uses half the
power of a traditional data center, with servers using 10% – 20% less power,
and the facility cooling using an average of 95% less power when compared to
air. With HGST's new breakthrough 6TB Ultrastar He6 drives, we will not only be
able to offer the highest storage density per container, but with the drive's
low power and low temperature, we can significantly lower power and cooling
costs even further. These developments equal huge savings for our data center
customers."
“Our CrashPlan enterprise endpoint backup is trusted by thousands of
leading brand-name organizations worldwide,” said Dan Mack, director of cloud
engineering, Code42. “HGST’s current 4TB enterprise-class drives help CrashPlan
quickly scale to meet our customers’ growing data storage needs. We're now
evaluating the new, low-power Ultrastar He6 drives as they provide 50 percent
more capacity in the same 3.5-inch HDD footprint, while helping reduce power
and cooling costs.”
HGST, a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), develops innovative,
advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, external
storage solutions and services used to store, preserve and manage the world’s
most valued data. HGST addresses customers’ rapidly changing storage needs by
delivering intelligent storage devices that tightly integrate hardware and
software to maximize solution performance. Founded by the pioneers of hard
drives, HGST provides high-value storage for a broad range of market segments,
including Enterprise, Cloud, Data Center, Mobile Computing, Consumer
Electronics and Personal Storage. HGST was established in 2003 and maintains
its U.S. headquarters in San Jose, California. For more information, please
visit the company’s website at http://www.hgst.com.
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First
Hermetically Sealed, Helium HDD Platform Provides Path for Higher
Capacity Storage, While Significantly Lowering Power and Cooling, and
Improving Storage Density
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (Booth #209), November 4, 2013 – HGST,
a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), today announced that it is
shipping the 6TB Ultrastar He6 hard disk drive (HDD). Key OEM, cloud
and research leaders working closely with HGST to qualify the drive
include HP, Netflix, Huawei Unified Storage, CERN, Green Revolution
Cooling and Code42, as well as some of the world’s largest social media
and search companies. Revealed
in September 2012, HGST’s cutting-edge HelioSeal™ platform provides a
path for higher capacity storage for decades to come while significantly
lowering customer total cost of ownership (TCO). Leveraging the
inherent benefits of helium, which is one-seventh the density of air,
the new Ultrastar He6 drive features HGST’s innovative 7Stac™ disk
design with 6TB, making it the world’s highest capacity HDD with the
best TCO for cloud storage, massive scale-out environments, disk-to-disk
backup, and replicated or RAID environments.
“With ever-increasing pressures on corporate and cloud data centers to
improve storage efficiencies and reduce costs, HGST is at the forefront
delivering a revolutionary new solution that significantly improves data
center TCO on virtually every level – capacity, power, cooling and
storage density – all in the same 3.5-inch form factor,” said Brendan
Collins, vice president of product marketing, HGST. “Not only is our
new Ultrastar helium hard drive helping customers solve data center
challenges today, our mainstream helium platform will serve as the
future building block for new products and technologies moving forward.
This is a huge feat, and we are gratified by the support of our
customers in the development of this platform.”
Through HGST’s innovative and patented HelioSeal process, the Ultrastar
He6 drive is the industry’s first hermetically sealed helium-filled HDD
that can be cost-effectively manufactured in high volume. The
breakthrough development of the hermetically sealed process is arriving
just in time as key market requirements are colliding with HDD areal
density constraints. According to IDC, areal density growth rates have
slowed, and are expected at a rate of less than 20 percent per year from
2011 to 2016. Moving forward, HGST’s helium platform will serve as the
main platform for new technologies like shingled magnetic recording
(SMR) and heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) where HGST will
continue to push the HDD areal density envelope. The helium platform
will also serve as the future building block for new, growing market
segments such as cold storage, a space that HGST plans to address over
the next couple of years.
"HDD industry areal density growth is not keeping pace with the rate of
storage capacity growth in enterprise data centers," said John Rydning,
research vice president, IDC. "HGST's proprietary, new, hermetically
sealed, helium-filled HDD solution – the industry's first helium filled
platform that simultaneously increases capacity while lowering power
consumption and operating temperature – is intersecting the market at a
time when IT managers are seeking out capacious and energy efficient new
disk drives that will help to reduce the total cost of ownership of
enterprise storage systems."
TCOptimized™ - Driving Down Data Center TCO with Helium
The amount of data that companies need to store is growing
exponentially, but IT budgets remain flat. With 6TB, a low 5.3 idle
watts, a reduced weight of 640g, and running at 4-5°C cooler, the new
Ultrastar He6 lowers data center TCO on virtually every level. Key TCO
benefits when compared to a 3.5-inch, five-platter, air-filled 4TB drive
include:
Highest Capacity HDD on the Market; 6TB, Seven-disk Design, Providing the Best TCO
Lowest Power Consumption with Best Watts-per-TB
- 23 percent lower idle power per drive
- 49 percent better watts-per-TB
Best Density Footprint in a Standard 3.5-inch Form Factor
- 50 percent higher capacity
Lighter Weight than a Standard Five-disk 3.5-inch Drive
- 50g lighter even with two more disks, offering 50 percent more capacity
- 38 percent lower weight-per-TB
Pushing New Limits: Ultrastar He6 Enables Liquid Cooling in the Data Center – See the Demo at Cloud Expo, Booth 209
Data center designers and server vendors are continuing to pack more
capability into smaller spaces, and with that, effective cooling is
becoming a new challenge due to hotter components and less space for
efficient airflow. One solution, which has been explored by many, is
liquid cooling. Liquid, which is denser than air, can remove heat more
efficiently and maintain a more constant operating temperature. However,
traditional drives cannot be submerged as they are open to the
atmosphere and would allow the cooling liquid inside, damaging or
destroying the HDD. HGST’s HelioSeal platform provides the only
cost-effective solution for liquid cooling as the drives are
hermetically sealed and enable operation in most any non-conductive
liquid. Today, HGST is working with leading innovators in this space
such as Huawei and Green Revolution Cooling.
HGST Ultrastar He6 Availability
The 6TB HGST Ultrastar He6 hard drives are now generally available. For more information, please visit: http://www.hgst.com
Quote Sheet
“As a leader in Big Data solutions, HP is constantly working to
improve storage densities. Partnering with HGST on their Ultrastar He6
drive allows HP to continue that leadership; delivering cost effective
solutions to keep up with today’s growing storage demands,” said Jimmy
Daley, director of Smart Storage, HP.
“The Netflix Open Connect delivery platform is a highly optimized video
content delivery network. We serve billions of hours of streaming video
per quarter to over 40 million subscribers,” said David Fullagar,
director of Content Delivery Architecture, Netflix. “As part of our
efforts to optimize the delivery ecosystem for Netflix and our Internet
Service Provider partners, we strive to build better and better
streaming appliances. The high storage density and lower power usage of
the Ultrastar He6 hard drives allow us to continue with that goal, and
create a great customer experience.”
“Huawei is very excited to be working with HGST. HGST has invited
Huawei, one of the world's leading information and communications
solutions providers, to become one of the first helium drive customers
in Asia Pacific to collaborate on storage applications utilizing the new
helium hard drives," said Mr. Fan Ruiqi, president of Huawei storage
product line. “With the new HGST Ultrastar He6 drives, Huawei will be
able to expand its product line with a strong competitive offering that
has industry-leading lower power consumption and operating temperature,
and an 87.5% improvement the system storage density compared to the
current industry standard."
“Over the past 20 years, we’ve recorded more than 100 petabytes of
physics data and our projected data growth rate is accelerating,” said
Olof Bärring, IT Department section leader responsible for facility
planning and procurement, CERN. “To scale efficiently, we must deploy
vast amounts of cost-effective storage with the best TCO. We have tested
the helium drive and it looks very promising: it surpassed our
expectations on power, cooling and storage density requirements. We’re
excited about the opportunity to qualify the HGST Ultrastar He6 hard
drive in our environment.”
"Our CarnotJet™ data center cooling system provides simple,
high-performance data center expansion that can be dropped virtually
anywhere in the world," said Christiaan Best, founder and CEO of Green
Revolution Cooling. “Today a data center using the CarnotJet technology
uses half the power of a traditional data center, with servers using 10%
– 20% less power, and the facility cooling using an average of 95% less
power when compared to air. With HGST's new breakthrough 6TB Ultrastar
He6 drives, we will not only be able to offer the highest storage
density per container, but with the drive's low power and low
temperature, we can significantly lower power and cooling costs even
further. These developments equal huge savings for our data center
customers."
“Our CrashPlan enterprise endpoint backup is trusted by thousands of
leading brand-name organizations worldwide,” said Dan Mack, director of
cloud engineering, Code42. “HGST’s current 4TB enterprise-class drives
help CrashPlan quickly scale to meet our customers’ growing data storage
needs. We're now evaluating the new, low-power Ultrastar He6 drives as
they provide 50 percent more capacity in the same 3.5-inch HDD
footprint, while helping reduce power and cooling costs.”
HGST,
a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), develops innovative, advanced
hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives, external storage
solutions and services used to store, preserve and manage the world’s
most valued data. HGST addresses customers’ rapidly changing storage
needs by delivering intelligent storage devices that tightly integrate
hardware and software to maximize solution performance. Founded by the
pioneers of hard drives, HGST provides high-value storage for a broad
range of market segments, including Enterprise, Cloud, Data Center,
Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Personal Storage. HGST was
established in 2003 and maintains its U.S. headquarters in San Jose,
California. For more information, please visit the company’s website at http://www.hgst.com.
- See more at: http://www.hgst.com/press-room/press-releases/hgst-ships-6TB-Ultrastar-HE6-helium-filled#sthash.HNQZPaCH.dpuf
First
Hermetically Sealed, Helium HDD Platform Provides Path for Higher
Capacity Storage, While Significantly Lowering Power and Cooling, and
Improving Storage Density
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Cloud Expo Silicon Valley (Booth #209), November 4, 2013 – HGST,
a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), today announced that it is
shipping the 6TB Ultrastar He6 hard disk drive (HDD). Key OEM, cloud
and research leaders working closely with HGST to qualify the drive
include HP, Netflix, Huawei Unified Storage, CERN, Green Revolution
Cooling and Code42, as well as some of the world’s largest social media
and search companies. Revealed
in September 2012, HGST’s cutting-edge HelioSeal™ platform provides a
path for higher capacity storage for decades to come while significantly
lowering customer total cost of ownership (TCO). Leveraging the
inherent benefits of helium, which is one-seventh the density of air,
the new Ultrastar He6 drive features HGST’s innovative 7Stac™ disk
design with 6TB, making it the world’s highest capacity HDD with the
best TCO for cloud storage, massive scale-out environments, disk-to-disk
backup, and replicated or RAID environments.
“With ever-increasing pressures on corporate and cloud data centers to
improve storage efficiencies and reduce costs, HGST is at the forefront
delivering a revolutionary new solution that significantly improves data
center TCO on virtually every level – capacity, power, cooling and
storage density – all in the same 3.5-inch form factor,” said Brendan
Collins, vice president of product marketing, HGST. “Not only is our
new Ultrastar helium hard drive helping customers solve data center
challenges today, our mainstream helium platform will serve as the
future building block for new products and technologies moving forward.
This is a huge feat, and we are gratified by the support of our
customers in the development of this platform.”
Through HGST’s innovative and patented HelioSeal process, the Ultrastar
He6 drive is the industry’s first hermetically sealed helium-filled HDD
that can be cost-effectively manufactured in high volume. The
breakthrough development of the hermetically sealed process is arriving
just in time as key market requirements are colliding with HDD areal
density constraints. According to IDC, areal density growth rates have
slowed, and are expected at a rate of less than 20 percent per year from
2011 to 2016. Moving forward, HGST’s helium platform will serve as the
main platform for new technologies like shingled magnetic recording
(SMR) and heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) where HGST will
continue to push the HDD areal density envelope. The helium platform
will also serve as the future building block for new, growing market
segments such as cold storage, a space that HGST plans to address over
the next couple of years.
"HDD industry areal density growth is not keeping pace with the rate of
storage capacity growth in enterprise data centers," said John Rydning,
research vice president, IDC. "HGST's proprietary, new, hermetically
sealed, helium-filled HDD solution – the industry's first helium filled
platform that simultaneously increases capacity while lowering power
consumption and operating temperature – is intersecting the market at a
time when IT managers are seeking out capacious and energy efficient new
disk drives that will help to reduce the total cost of ownership of
enterprise storage systems."
TCOptimized™ - Driving Down Data Center TCO with Helium
The amount of data that companies need to store is growing
exponentially, but IT budgets remain flat. With 6TB, a low 5.3 idle
watts, a reduced weight of 640g, and running at 4-5°C cooler, the new
Ultrastar He6 lowers data center TCO on virtually every level. Key TCO
benefits when compared to a 3.5-inch, five-platter, air-filled 4TB drive
include:
Highest Capacity HDD on the Market; 6TB, Seven-disk Design, Providing the Best TCO
Lowest Power Consumption with Best Watts-per-TB
- 23 percent lower idle power per drive
- 49 percent better watts-per-TB
Best Density Footprint in a Standard 3.5-inch Form Factor
- 50 percent higher capacity
Lighter Weight than a Standard Five-disk 3.5-inch Drive
- 50g lighter even with two more disks, offering 50 percent more capacity
- 38 percent lower weight-per-TB
Pushing New Limits: Ultrastar He6 Enables Liquid Cooling in the Data Center – See the Demo at Cloud Expo, Booth 209
Data center designers and server vendors are continuing to pack more
capability into smaller spaces, and with that, effective cooling is
becoming a new challenge due to hotter components and less space for
efficient airflow. One solution, which has been explored by many, is
liquid cooling. Liquid, which is denser than air, can remove heat more
efficiently and maintain a more constant operating temperature. However,
traditional drives cannot be submerged as they are open to the
atmosphere and would allow the cooling liquid inside, damaging or
destroying the HDD. HGST’s HelioSeal platform provides the only
cost-effective solution for liquid cooling as the drives are
hermetically sealed and enable operation in most any non-conductive
liquid. Today, HGST is working with leading innovators in this space
such as Huawei and Green Revolution Cooling.
HGST Ultrastar He6 Availability
The 6TB HGST Ultrastar He6 hard drives are now generally availabl