With certain exceptions, talk of advanced hard drive technology regularly has a tough time escaping research labs. Western Digital's HGST is promising a much more tangible project that could boost ...

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 ...

The things most people know about helium are that it makes balloons float up and it makes your voice squeaky if you inhale some. But helium is more than just fun and games: it is also a scarce ...

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 ...

You may have heard of liquid nitrogen being used in computer cases, mostly for cooling and bragging, but what about helium? Not so much. However, Hitachi GST (HGST) has just introduced a new platform ...

HGST - formerly Hitachi's disk unit - announced a major advance in disk capacity and efficiency with their development of helium-filled disk drives. The drives enable greater density in both platters ...

The massive data explosion is projected to continue unabated as far into the future as any rational projections can predict. The fuel of social media, the cloud, and the emerging 'Internet of Things' ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Have you ever had a helium balloon in your car and notice that its movements are much different than you would expect? If you never noticed, it is certainly something to see. It ...