I wonder what happens when you screw one of these open or someone hammers them until it cracks open.

Not much i'd imagine, tiny bit of squeaky voice if you put your face right over it and breathed in. What would happen is you would break the hard drive

10TB HDD... yawn. A 10TB SSD now THAT would be impressive.

Not much i'd imagine, tiny bit of squeaky voice if you put your face right over it and breathed in. What would happen is you would break the hard drive

Yeah it's Helium and not Hydrogen or whatever it was called. :P Think it's vacuum sealed or something and then Helium is used for, well I actually do not know, certainly not cooling or pressing the platters together in some way. EDIT: Speaking of scientific technology I don't understand a single platter 10TB density would be pretty neat, 15.000 RPM or some such for speed please. :P (Well by that point SSD's might have replaced HDD's almost completely for both superior speed and storage capacity maybe, guess it depends on how pricing will be in a few years really.) EDIT: Weren't there rumors of reaching 20 TB storage capacity HDD's within a few years come to think of it, seems amazing with how quickly they've improved over the last couple of years.

The helium is just for less resistance to the spinning discs compared to the normal air mix, creates less wobble I guess so you can pack more platters closer. But yeah I think he was thinking of hydrogen and possible explosions haha

The helium is just for less resistance to the spinning discs compared to the normal air mix, creates less wobble I guess so you can pack more platters closer. But yeah I think he was thinking of hydrogen and possible explosions haha

Wasn't thinking explosions or anything 😀. But that would have been cool. Or dangerous.

10TB HDD... yawn. A 10TB SSD now THAT would be impressive.

6.4 TB SSD / 2.2GBs write / 2.8GBs read - enough? https://www.sandisk.com/business/datacenter/products/flash-devices/pcie-flash/sx350

6.4 TB SSD / 2.2GBs write / 2.8GBs read - enough? https://www.sandisk.com/business/datacenter/products/flash-devices/pcie-flash/sx350

Definitely 🙂

EDIT: Weren't there rumors of reaching 20 TB storage capacity HDD's within a few years come to think of it, seems amazing with how quickly they've improved over the last couple of years.

HAMR (Heat Assisted magnetic recording) predicts 20 TB HDDS in the next decade I think, possibly even more

I wonder what happens when you screw one of these open or someone hammers them until it cracks open.

nothing... in gaz form it isn't cold. the ambiant air around you is full of nitrogen and you are not frozen 🙂 despite in liquid form it is damn cold. *edit* used to use nitrogen for replacing the oxygen in air, to keep apple nice for 9 month in industry (6 month for europe).

Wasn't thinking explosions or anything 😀. But that would have been cool. Or dangerous.

"explosion" and accident that happen are due to the fast translation from liquid to gaz and capping the recipient when the translation is started. as dangerous as chloridric acid + sodium hydroxide during the reaction you have toxic gaz + lot of heat but at the end... salted water. with chemical you always have to know what you are doing.