Western Digital subsidiary HGST has claimed that filling hard drives with helium instead of air makes them more, not less reliable. After shipping more than one million drives based on proprietary ...

Unlike Iomega’s eGo Helium portable hard drive, a new hard disk drive platform developed by Western Digital (WD) subsidiary HGST actually does fill hard drives with helium. Rather than just making the ...

Hitachi started shipping the first drive to feature a helium filling, a concept it first unveiled back in 2012 as a means to boost capacity by around 40 per cent compared to traditional mechanical ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. HGST, formerly known as “Hitachi Global Storage Technologies”, says it has a solution to the performance ...

Researchers at HGST, a subsidiary of Western Digital, have announced a new type of storage medium, the “Ultrastar He6”, the world’s first hermetically-sealed, helium-based hard drive. After years ...

The latest trick in adding extra capacity to our computers doesn’t rely upon ‘5-dimensional memory crystals’ or price-drops in SSDs but on the second most abundant element in the universe: helium.