6 TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives

[einander]

http://www.techpowerup.com/193800/hgst- ... rives.html

[IdeasVacuum]

...now that sounds like a fire hazard.

[KJ67]

Helium is an inert gas.

[IdeasVacuum]

phew

[Kiffi]

... but the Hard Drives sound now like Mickey Mouse.

[einander]

Who remember the 10MB state-of-the-art drives?
Now with a 6 TB drive we are probably going to stuff it full of data.
The hazard is that in time, it will fail.

[idle]

I still remember getting a 10MB HD and thinking at the time I'll never fill that up!
In another decade or so we'll have Exercism drives to follow on from the Terror bytes

[Zach]

I remember my first 10MB drive.

It was fucking huge, like took up two 5.25" bays in my old IBM case. Back then I didn't know how to read bytes and the version of DOS I had didn't even list them with commas, I think. I thought I had a 1 GB drive at first.. I saw a huge number with a bunch of zeroes and the drive was physically huge, can you blame a 12 year old?


I really liked the 20MB drive I got with a PC Jr. I had receive from my 5th grade teacher. But it was flaky and didn't work at first, so I opened it up. Can you believe it was not sealed / encased at all? It was literally a cover over the platters and head, not like drives today. I touched it, moved it around and futzed for a bit and it started working.

But I couldn't leave it well enough alone and actually took it apart somewhat, and messed up putting it back together. So one of the platters wobbled and the heads crashed into it HARD, like grinding metal sound, hard.... Magnetic layer completely scratched away...

Lesson learned..

[flaith]

And I remember the first 5Mb ESDI Hard Drive on a PC XT and how to configure it with debug, I can still remember the line to get into the ESDI card (g=c800:5)
We're getting close to the first Peta(Pebi?)bytes HD

[heartbone]

Who remember the 10MB state-of-the-art drives?
Now with a 6 TB drive we are probably going to stuff it full of data.
The hazard is that in time, it will fail.

I was just thinking about that exact thing other day as I was mucking about with my recently acquired 1TB hard drives.
I'm quite sure that there were business plans developed about the concept of a 10 MB hard drive standard.

I still remember getting a 10MB HD and thinking at the time I'll never fill that up!

Depending on the OS that you were using with that hard drive, you may have been quite correct in your thinking.
Pre Windows bloatware for sure. Right?

[Fangbeast]

And I remember the first 5Mb ESDI Hard Drive on a PC XT and how to configure it with debug, I can still remember the line to get into the ESDI card (g=c800:5)
We're getting close to the first Peta(Pebi?)bytes HD

I still remember my first 10 meg Maxtor hard disk drive with a Promise RLL controller and the G=c800:5, finding that the address was incorrect and having to do a dump of addresses every 5 to 25 bytes to find the true start address. At least Adaptec controllers started at the right address!! Grrr.

[netmaestro]

Finally, Fangbeast has a single drive to store his 'favorite sheep' database!! (I hear his wife complains constantly about the space his raid array is taking up)

[jassing]

I remember some of the racers (amateur) would fill their tires up saying air weighed too much and He would allow them to go faster. (it didn't)