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Over the last few years, we’ve seen helium-filled hard drives go from an out-there idea to a shipping solution.

Until now, however, these drives were effectively confined to the enterprise market, where high capacities and reliability are paramount. The high storage capacity of helium drives has helped differentiate them from SSDs, since hard drives still have vastly lower prices per GB than any solid state storage on the market, but consumer access has been slower to roll out.

Western Digital did ship 8TB drives in its Red and Purple product lines last year, but it’s increasing their capacity up to 10TB and aiming to expand its addressable market.

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