HGST Ultrastar He6 Helium Filled HDD

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    HGST Ultrastar He6 Helium Filled HDD

    Any experience with this hard drive?
    And does anybody know where to buy it? HK's distributor only sells wholesale, and apparently doesn't know any customer/shop where I can buy it.

    http://www.hgst.com/hard-drives/ente.../ultrastar-he6


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    The only place I found was a German online shop http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/h...-a1049476.html

    It's only just come out and at 680 euros there won't be many selling it until the price comes down I would guess. I'd rather wait until there was some reliability data available as well. If I wanted 6TB, which I can't imagine for a good few years.


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    These things still (unsurprisingly) seem to be very scarce:

    As far as pricing and availability goes, we have no hard data from Seagate, other than it’s “currently shipping.” Some component websites already list the ST6000NM0004 at around $600, but they’re out of stock. The WD Ultrastar He6, despite being released a while ago, is actually very hard to find online (at the time of publishing, I couldn’t find it anywhere).

    From an article on 7 April

    Though I did find it on Amazon.


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    This is probably a beta test.