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Re:The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates by zeristor on Friday May 04, 2018 @06:05AM (#16993387)
Helium gas being conductive? Usually fluid cooling works by convection, isn't conduction only for solids?
Re:The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates by btrettel on Friday May 04, 2018 @09:44AM (#16994540)
Fluid dynamicist here.

"Convective" heat transfer includes heat transfer by both advection (the bulk fluid movement) and conduction. You might think convection is just advection, and I will admit the terminology is used inconsistently.

Re:The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates by zeristor on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @06:34AM (#17019984)
Erm, I'm a lapsed physics graduate.

Thanks for the correction, I was also watching PBS Space Time on Red Dwarfs, and how small stars cool the core by convection. Larger stars use radiation in the core and so lose access to a majority of the mass of the star which could have been used for fuel.