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