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Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


Silver Alicorn posted:

does helium diffuse through metal? what happens when all the helium escapes, does the drive die?


yes it can/will diffuse


i think basically the hard drive itself will die or be replaced before helium leaking becomes a serious concern

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Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


idk

the thing i read said that as the helium starting leaking out, nothing would replace it, so the pressure in the drive lessens and slows down the helium leakage


im not an expert in gas transfer or whatever

Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


do the usb-sata boards from shucked drives work with other drives or are they somehow locked

Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


from "talk about hard drives" to "brag about our pirated poo poo" in 2 pages !!

Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


when walmart had those external 500gb pny ssds for 15 bucks i bought 8 of them

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Samuel L. ACKSYN
Feb 29, 2008


mediaphage posted:

i’m jelly. those didn’t happen in canada or if they did certainly not around me lol



they were selling them as a back to school thing, and when the season was over all of the back to school stuff went on clearance, including the ssds

thing about that is because they were in the system as "seasonal" and not electronics you had to wander around the store trying to find the seasonal clearance section

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