"Western Digital on Monday announced that its subsidiary has begun shipping the new 6-terabyte Ultrastar Ultrastar He6 drive drive, a model that seals the spinning disk platters inside a hermetic chamber filled with helium instead of air". The power used per terabyte drops 49 percent because helium is a low density of air reducing the turbulence caused by spinning disk and heads that constantly move above them. "HGST's Helium platform will serve as a future building block for a new growing market segments such as cold storage, a space that HGST plans to address over the next couple of years."
"The mystery surrounding a large structure built on a barge docked in San Francisco bay is deepening. Is it floating data center? Or something else altogether. Google has been building a large structure made of shipping containers with evidence pointing that it may be a floating data center. Google itself has a patent for the concept. "The Portland (Maine) Press Herald ran a story reporting a structure built on a barge also showing up there.
Source: CNET
Amazon Cloud Drive provides 5 GB of free storage. You are able to upload and stream up to a rather minimal 250 songs to Windows PCs, Macs, and Apple Android devices. You can purchase more from 20 to 1,000 gigabtes of 50 cent per gigabyte
Source: ZDNet
Storage companies and their products allow people and businesses up the efficiency to operate more freely and securely save their data .
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