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In Reply to: RE: Enterprise 6 TB for $299 posted by LWR on July 25, 2014 at 06:43:02
WD owns Hitachi.
And since the disk is helium filled and sealed, you could potentially submerse it in mineral oil or Fluorinert for cooling and noise mitigation.
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do the singers all have squeaky voices?
JE
pathetic post that shouldn't be here.
For that reason alone I would shy away from such a drive. ;-)
Bits are just bits — they don't change pitch! ;-)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
I've heard that if the bits get slanted and jiggly from jitter, they can sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks. Helium makes it worse so I'm sticking with solid-state disk.
... working for a small software outfit that developed MRP (manufacturing) software on late 70's and early 80's desktop computers (CPM and MPM o/s.) The big day came when we took delivery of a beta version of Seagate's 50 mega-byte hard drive. It was about 18" wide, 12" deep, and about 5" high. It took a minute or so to reach speed and stabilize. It's cost was about $5,000... or $17,850 in today's dollars.
We knew it was a new world.
WW
"A man need merely light the filaments of his receiving set and the world's greatest artists will perform for him." Alfred N. Goldsmith, RCA, 1922
Incredible how far we've come with technology in such a short time. I remember CP/M and S-100 bus machines but if I recall correctly, we were using old 8-inch floppies.
"I recall correctly, we were using old 8-inch floppies."
Same ones still being used in our ICBM system...
Yeah, I saw that on one of the TV News programs.... US Chair Force Launch Officers cheating on exams, outdated computers, broken phone systems, limited promotion opportunity, low morale. And yes, 8-inch floppies! Scary thought.
Thank God we have the US Navy submarine service and ballistic missile submarines. Go Navy!
Are you saying this:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2456483/western-digital-jumps-to-6tb-in-budget-hard-drives-with-299-red.html
uses the sealed helium technology?
and...
the immersion in a cooling and vibrating damping environment may have positive sound quality influence?
"the immersion in a cooling and vibrating damping environment may have positive sound quality influence?
I wouldn't suggest that to be true but I'm sure someone here will if you wait for this thread to develop. ;-)
""the immersion in a cooling and vibrating damping environment may have positive sound quality influence?
I wouldn't suggest that to be true but I'm sure someone here will if you wait for this thread to develop. ;-)"
-At $300 it might be worth the experiment, but $600- ehhh, not me.
the Helium drive is 300 dollars more and has the HGST label, not the Western Digital name. Although HGST is owned by WD....
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You're right. I assumed that WD just relabeled their HGST drives. The WD drives use plain-ole "Perpendicular Magnetic Recording" (PMR) technology with no helium to reduce friction / power consumption.
Drives using PMR are at the limits of physics and bumping the limits of maximum capacity. Manufacturers are looking at other magnetic recording technologies to go beyond these limits.
especially for an Enterprise drive.
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