6TB helium-filled hard drives bump capacity, decrease power use

Re:6TB helium-filled hard drives bump capacity, decrease pow... by todayiamme on Monday November 04, 2013 @12:28PM (#6669837)

Your description is a much more precise way of looking at it. I was trying to reach for the same concept when I talked about fluid dynamics and the forces acting on the head cancelling out so that it rests at exactly the right distance, but I lacked the clarity to state it so neatly. Thanks!

>>> It is exceptionally challenging engineering. <<<

It's also very beautiful... When you look at something like that it's a bit like looking at a work of art - I don't know how to explain it but it is awe inspiring. I wonder how people end up working on such things... How do you get to the point where you can raise your sleeves and create a system as beautiful as this?

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Re:6TB helium-filled hard drives bump capacity, decrease pow... by snom380 on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @12:01AM (#6673300)

I don't think any one person can create a piece of engineering as complex as a modern day hard drive. There are just too many disciplines involved: Physical, electrical and embedded software engineering, applied physics, information theory for encoding the data and recovering from errors. But certainly a single person or group in those fields can be responsible for specific breakthroughs.

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