On: 6TB helium-filled hard drives bump capacity, decre...

[ChuckMcM]

I suppose that if they are sure they can hold the gas in the chamber for at least 3 years (typical depreciation rate for drives) they will do fine.

It will give a challenge to the data recovery guys, now having to run the drives in a helium sealed working chamber.

[marcosdumay → ChuckMcM]

It will also reduce the lifetime of disks, making the best case near the average.

That may not be much of a problem for medium and large business, but small business and consumers won't like the trend.

[ars → ChuckMcM]

It won't affect them. The point is to reduce power consumption and put the platters closer together.

Neither of those are a problem for data recovery.