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Re:Toshiba Unveils First FC-MAMR HDD: 18 TB, Helium Filled by moonbug on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @03:05PM (#26255002)
Dunno, but disks are consumable items - don't kid yourself otherwise.
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Re:Toshiba Unveils First FC-MAMR HDD: 18 TB, Helium Filled by jlokier on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @09:46PM (#26259108)
I expect some drives to fail within 5 years, but I have many that still have data from much longer ago.

It would be a disconcertingly new phenomenon to find every drive in some old archival NAS failed simultaneously, or every one In a collection of external drives, because all drives last exactly 5 years with little variation, even when switched off, due to helium loss.

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