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Re:Seagate Announces 12 TB HDD: 2nd-Gen Helium-Filled HDD by drivethrowinguy on Friday March 17, 2017 @06:51AM (#13892966)
About ~3/4 of the power a drive uses goes into the spindle motor. Only a relatively small part of that is dissipated in the bearings (a quarter or so), all the rest is gas-platter friction, turbulences due to the heads etc.

Fun-fact aside: The head fly height in helium drives is ~1 nm.

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