Personal computing discussed
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just brew it! wrote:- For me, the most interesting thing will probably be the price drops on existing 4TB drives, now that a 6TB drive is becoming available in volume!
just brew it! wrote:Hmm... if you do lose the helium, does the drive die? Or does performance and power usage simply degrade?
Kougar wrote:As for power, if the drive could function without helium then why go through all the trouble and expense to put and keep helium in there for a couple watts at most in savings.
Captain Ned wrote:Kougar wrote:As for power, if the drive could function without helium then why go through all the trouble and expense to put and keep helium in there for a couple watts at most in savings.
2W * the thousands of enterprise drives in a data center and we're talking real money both in electricity and reduced cooling costs.