They all die in 3 years when the helium leaks out though the metal.
That is why NONE of these huge drives ever come with a 5 year warranty AND in stock with a 5 year warranty, not a fake press release.. in stock. One that claimed to be in stock wanted 200 extra dollars to extend the warranty from 3 to 5 years.
I assume no helium drive on earth will last over 6 years.
Worthless tech for saving data long term.
Worse is that the big helium drives have self-destroying flash ram chips (for write caching) that can only be used 50,000 state transitions maximum. Sometimes 15,000 state transitions.
Word of my bitching spread, so seagate now offers 3 year data recovery of $500 ST14000NE0008 (14 TB helium) and 5 year replace with a used prior-broken drive replacent.
This month seagate just cut the warrantee for data recovery from 3 years to 2 years, as seen in this link here in details for ST14000NE0008 : https://www.cdw.com/product/seagate-ironwolf-pro-st14000ne0008-hard-drive-14-tb-sata-6gb-s/5269224#PO
500 bucks for a leaky helium 14TB drive
Now when a drive is dying seagate wont let you RMA by hiding the "SMART" data fields of a dying drive! : https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/7b4d9g/seagates_rma_process_is_dogshit_heres_why/
Just refill it with hydrogen when the helium leaks out.
Interesting invention. That might not be patented yet.
It was not until 9 years ago that the W87 h-bomb warhead got a gas refill port for Tritium gas, saving hundreds of millions of dollars to recharge tritium used in the fision part of an hbomb design.
You would have thought of adding it decades ago, because no tritium lasts 13 years in a h-bomb, and now you just solved the riddle of using a dormant drive that claims low helium.
Many drives this year have a sata SMART code field from 0 to 100 indicating how much helium is left before self destruct.
... but none have a refill port.
ports leak, but you could think of one that does not, in your patent, I assume.
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