For an excessively hot exterior sure, but I was thinking back to an experience at NetApp when thermal inside was the issue. When NetApp first started using SATA drives (rather than Fiber Channel) in their Nearstore appliance we discovered that the SATA drives were negatively effected by writing too much. Specifically, if write duty cycle was too high, the r/w head got too hot, and the heat caused it to change shape slightly and that shape change caused it to fly higher. Leading to something that was dubbed 'high fly writes' which splattered into adjacent tracks and could corrupt data. One fix was to keep track of the write duty cycle and to let the drive 'rest' for a bit to keep the overall duty cycle into something the drive could handle.

I don't think that sort of failure can happen on a helium drive.