Helium gets you low density at standard pressure. I am guessing that they prefer...

jccooper on Nov 4, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: 6TB helium-filled hard drives bump capacity, decre...

Helium gets you low density at standard pressure. I am guessing that they prefer not to construct hard drives as pressure vessels. Probably that makes thermal conductivity, among other things, a problem.