4 Oct
2011
4 Oct
'11
11:58 a.m.
On 4 Oct 2011 at 11:24, steven stengel wrote:
The gas bottle by the hard drive said
"Helium" on it - very weird. It
seems unlikely that the hard drive is Helium-tight. For cooling?
Pretty much. Helium has been used with magnetic drums at least since
the 1950s. It has a relatively high heat transfer coefficient and so
reduces localized heating between the drum and stationary heads.
--Chuck