Seagate Will not use helium-filled HDDs

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Extra risks? Such as helium exploding? Who woulda thunk.
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Extra risks? Such as helium exploding? Who woulda thunk.
I'd think that leakage would be the major issue. Likely would result in damage to the drive due to friction, head crashing etc etc...
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yeah yeah yeah, it's early. :stewpid: 🤓
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helium is fairly stable hydrogen is not
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Helium is totally inert. It doesn't react with anything, at all.
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I dunno why I thought that would be funny... the serious responses... nevermind.
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He didn't say danger, he said risk. And the risks are to the drive, not to you.
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Aren't Helium reserves low as well? It can be used in stuff that is a damn site more important than floating balloons and hard drives.
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As the previous poster pointed out, the Hindenburg used Hydrogen not Helium (due to trade restrictions). Helium could leak out of the drive if the seals fail over time, but it's not dangerous (would cause potential drive failure though). If you were in a server room where every drive miraculously vented all their helium at the same time, and they became ionised (turning into alpha particles), breathing them in would be highly dangerous. Since the ionisation like that is practically extremely improbably, worst case of catastrophic failure will just result in you having a funny voice until it's vented 😉
how do you want to ionize helium? do you have a source of radiation or soething that creates energized arks troughout the room? ionizing helium also doesnt necesarly turn it into alphaparticles. btw you cant "breath" in alphaparticles. they are absorbed very quick and they arent some mysterious gas that floats around. the only thing that will happens is the disks will break. nothing more and nothing less. p.s. where did your ideas even come from? some of this stuff is basic chemistry oh and the leakage they are talking about is not a screw failing, its diffusion. helium with its very small size per nuclei can diffuse and escape when not properly sealed. just like hydrogen or even water in a watercooling loop.
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Aren't Helium reserves low as well? It can be used in stuff that is a damn site more important than floating balloons and hard drives.
Like? Helium's the second most common element in the Universe. Rare on earth, but not in the rest of the solar system. It's gonna be fine.
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Aren't Helium reserves low as well? It can be used in stuff that is a damn site more important than floating balloons and hard drives.
Demand is outpacing the supply. We won't actually run out for a long time (it's refined from natural gas using fractional distillation, and we have TONS of natural gas), but the price will rocket most likely.
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Still don't trust Seagate drives with a 10 metre pole. deltatux
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Still don't trust Seagate drives with a 10 metre pole. deltatux
How do you trust something with a pole?? Just curious...
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How do you trust something with a pole?? Just curious...
lol, worded incorrectly (long day) ... should have been: Don't trust Seagate at all, even if I have to use a 10 metre pole to touch it lol. deltatux
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lol, worded incorrectly (long day) ... should have been: Don't trust Seagate at all, even if I have to use a 10 metre pole to touch it lol. deltatux
What brand to you recommend then? I'm needing a new 2TB HDD but I've always had horrible experiences with WD.
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The major issue here is the cost ... and thoses are not made for be provided to "simple" customers, but expensive datacenter storage .. Side note, im really not pleased with the last 2To Seagate HDD i have buy... Performance are extremely good ( surely the fastest HDD Sata 3 you can find, copy files from a SSD allow extremely fast data transfer, but with this one, i was like " wow it is really fast " . ) But it have some damn noisy sound when start, due to an extensive energy saving system... ( hopefully i dont use it as my main drive, so it limit the noise as the HDD is only " working " when i backup files on it. ) At contrario i have 3 WD .. ( Black and Blue ), and all are silent and work really really good too . ( the blue ones have more of 5-6 years and are still working perfectly )
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If you want a 2TB HDD which is fast then you need the WD20EARS (Not the WD20EARX). I've had one for over a year and it's the most rapid 7,200rpm HDD I've ever used!
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lol, worded incorrectly (long day) ... should have been: Don't trust Seagate at all, even if I have to use a 10 metre pole to touch it lol. deltatux
Polish people don't grow that tall.
#4433422
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Polish people don't grow that tall.
He was talking about length....Not height...:cheers: :boob:
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Like? Helium's the second most common element in the Universe. Rare on earth, but not in the rest of the solar system. It's gonna be fine.
Whew. That's good news. We can go into space to get some helium from our other planets and bring it back to fill our HDDs and our Balloons. ^_^

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