Windows 7: Helium-filled hard disks will lead to higher capacities

So all you need to do is never let the air seal break.

Older drives would be incredibly dangerous.

Let's not get carried away here. A few cubic inches of hydrogen wouldn't pose much of a threat.

When I was a teen, I used to play with hydrogen quite a bit. I once filled a small (1 quart, maybe) plastic bag with it, plus some air. I laid it on the cellar floor, and tossed on a lit match. I was surprised at how loud the bang was. (Scared my mother, upstairs, badly.) The concrete floor wasn't marked.

I imagine that the drives would be filled with helium for engineering purposes, rather than safety. Helium has a much higher thermal conductivity than air; I don't know how H2 compares.

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As great as SSDs are, HDDs still outpace SSDs in capacity and "byte-per-buck" by a great margin (unless SSDs have somehow achieved 2~3TB per unit at affordable prices?). I don't see HDDs going out of fashion any time soon.

I can see at Micky D's hot spot with a bunch of laptops floating around. Someone will come up with laptop anchors to sell.

LOL. Youd be able to really secure erase it

Higher capacities and also higher prices for drives and everything else.
The supply of helium is decreasing, not increasing. We might be seriously screwed in a decade.

Nuclear waste produces Alpha particles (i.e. Helium).

That's one way to make a computer lighter i guess. As far as storage capacities, I don't believe that taking the air out and putting Helium in to a hard drive will increase the amount of storage in a hard drive.

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