They're here....! HGST(WD) now shipping 6TB drives

[jgreco]

http://www.hgst.com/press-room/press-releases/hgst-ships-6TB-Ultrastar-HE6-helium-filled

I'm not quite sure where they're shipping them /to/, but they'll probably show up in the channel soon.

 

[gpsguy]

I saw the announcement too. It sounds like the first one's might be headed to early datacenter adopters.

According to an article in pc magazine, "The Ultrastar He6, which maintains the traditional 3.5-inch form factor, is being targeted at businesses, and companies that have signed on to try it out include HP, Netflix, Huawei Unified Storage, CERN, Green Revolution Cooling, and Code42."

 

[cyberjock]

I just have to wonder if the new helium sealed drives are:

1. More reliable or less reliable in standard setups.
2. The Helium makes the drives more or less susceptible to temperature changes that affect reliability. I say this because hard drives ride on a cushion of air. Now that cushion has been replaced with Helium which has different characteristics than air.

Hmm.....

 

[jgreco]

3. if you put enough of them in your server, will it float away?

 

[cyberjock]

3. if you put enough of them in your server, will it float away?

ROFL!!!

 

[jgreco]

Thinking, of course, Pixar's "Up"

 

[fracai]

I'm thinking of getting a bunch of these and replacing the helium with hydrogen. It's lighter so the disks will spin faster and I won't need to install as many to get a floating server.

And an additional caution to any audiophiles thinking of using these. The helium will change the pitch of your files if played directly to disk. Make sure you have enough RAM to cache a full song before playing.

 

[jgreco]

anxious to see: fracai's Hinden-surv

 

[TheSmoker]

roflmao!

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[jgreco]

and... you might wanna keep that guy away from it too...

 

[fracai]

Oh the bit-manity!

 

[cyberjock]

By using hydrogen the data will be lighter. Since it's lighter your compression routines will compress the data more! This means you can store even more than 6TB if you mod your drive! We all need to do this!

Geez.. what noobs!

 

[jgreco]

What a gasbag.

 

[cyberjock]

About 10 years ago I saw a hilarious article(satire) on a new computer virus that compressed data so well that when it got stored on hard drives the data would be so heavy it would make hard drives explode from the centripetal forces of this "heavy" data. The internet was going down all over the place because of this "heavy" data being passed through wires and racks of servers that were unable to withstand the increased weight. I tried to find it, but I couldn't. :(

 

[cyberjock]

Oh.. here it is..


http://www.bbspot.com/News/2003/02/heavyweight.html

 

[jgreco]

Today's version appears to be

http://m.blogs.computerworld.com/ma...ic-and-speakers-pcs-disconnected-all-networks

While theoretically possible, this would be sn extremely difficult bit of code to pull off...

 

[cyberjock]

Actually, it seems very easy to pull off. Just make a different frequency for each character. While I'm not a malware guy so I wouldn't make a good choice for trying to hide such a program, but I can imagine if i really tried it could be easy to take the input from a mic and convert it to ASCII and then transmit to another computer via the network. It would have to be very targetted though. If you had a room full of computers all trying to "talk" at the same time it could be messy. But there's plenty of frequencies above the adult ear that could be chosen so that you don't even hear the sounds.

To behonest, I wouldn't be surprised if this kind of stuff has existed for longer than we want to admit to.

 

[vegaman]

Yeah, communication between computers using audio shouldn't be too hard. But that's assuming both machines are already infected, in close enough proximity and their speakers/mic's can actually produce/record things accurately enough.

Infecting a machine through audio would be a lot harder though. Especially in a way that works across different hardware and platforms.

 

[Johhhn]

i wonder how much helium they're using, and wasting, considering we actually have a finite supply of it on earth.

 

[cyberjock]

i wonder how much helium they're using, and wasting, considering we actually have a finite supply of it on earth.

I thought the same thing. Helium is expect to increase in price drastically over the next 10 years. Even now I can't buy balloons with Helium in them locally.