Seagate Will not use helium-filled HDDs

Published 2012-10-16 06:55 by Hilbert Hagedoorn

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Chock

2012-10-19 01:47

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. ^_^

if we can get fusion to work that wont be a problem 🙂

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Norvekh

2012-10-19 02:44

New technology brings new costs and risks. Sounds pretty standard faire to me. Seven terabyte platters in a single drive would be amazing though. I could pick up two drives and replace six.

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Chouji

2012-10-19 04:17

if we can get fusion to work that wont be a problem 🙂

And which type of fusion would that be? As for the topic. I think it's a great idea if you can keep the system sealed properly. I was considering a hdd in a vacuum that uses heat transfer directly on the read arms. and motor to pull any heat away from the read head contact. Without any air friction such a system would be excellent in the terms of performance.

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Year

2012-10-20 00:00

Extra risks? Such as helium exploding? Who woulda thunk.

this guy must have eaten a helium filled hard drive 😀 http://img9.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/16779/1677952520f2b295f35f2287e916f1aaa9ffcf22.jpg

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Chock

2012-10-20 05:52

And which type of fusion would that be? As for the topic. I think it's a great idea if you can keep the system sealed properly. I was considering a hdd in a vacuum that uses heat transfer directly on the read arms. and motor to pull any heat away from the read head contact. Without any air friction such a system would be excellent in the terms of performance.

deuterium tritium fusion. there are other ways aswell and i hope that we as a race can get this technology under control in the near future

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Hyvry1

2012-10-20 16:54

Helium escapes the atmosphere which is why it is getting depleted. There may well be lots in space but it is going to be a nightmare to collect. I would have expected creating a vacuum in the hard drive would be easier so i think that is the way the higher performance drives could go. Of course like the helium drives, a vacuum drive would have to be designed for such a low pressure.

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Chock

2012-10-23 05:38

Helium escapes the atmosphere which is why it is getting depleted. There may well be lots in space but it is going to be a nightmare to collect. I would have expected creating a vacuum in the hard drive would be easier so i think that is the way the higher performance drives could go. Of course like the helium drives, a vacuum drive would have to be designed for such a low pressure.

creating a vacuum is the same thing as filling it with inert gas like helium. you still have diffusion going on. the real problem is getting it tight enough to have anything go both ways.