Western Digital has announced the shipping of its highest capacity HGST HelioSeal drives yet. The Ultrastar He12 packs up to 12TB of data on its 8 component discs, spinning at up to 7,200rpm in a sealed Helium gas filled enclosure. In addition to the huge capacity, …
Western Digital on Wednesday announced that it had begun to ship its HGST Ultrastar He12 hard drives with 12 TB of capacity. The HDDs are the first drives to employ eight platters, so the fact that Western Digital is now shipping them is important not only …
Toshiba on Wednesday said that it had begun to sample its latest BiCS 3D NAND flash memory chips with 64 word layers and 512 Gb capacity. A co-development project with Western Digital, the two companies intend to produce the new ICs (integrated circuits) in high volume …
