Lynn McGuire wrote:
On Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at 5:10:16 AM UTC+8, Paul wrote:

The Helium gas is guaranteed to stay inside for 5 years.


Does anybody have a Helium drive more than 5 years old? They arrived
2013 IIRR.

Not yet here. In fact, I am not even sure how tell if a hard drive is
helium filled ?

Lynn

The HGST drives have a SMART indicator for Helium (22).
Seagate apparently don't have the same thing on theirs.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/heliu...failure-rates/

You would think there would at least be a sticker with
"Caution: Helium Inside" on it :-) As a way of bragging.

Paul