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Thats ingenious, I think I will throw a couple of helium bottles under the hood of my car and a few in the trunk. Then I can claim, I have a hovercraft!WOW. Imagine that - a HD that doesn't weigh anything!
No dude, those are alpha particles silly.
By that logic, Japan's crashed nuclear power plants are already turning the Pacific Ocean into a huge helium generation plant. Oregon, Washington and British Columbia should get together to harvest all that helium. They could ship the other spilled nuclear waste back to Japan while they were at it. Gotta say, though, the table salt idea (linked by @Guest) sounds a lot cheaper. Link goes to Tom's Hardware and it doesn't depend on any post-peak-everything depleted materials, just salt - http://www.tomshardware.com/news/table-salt-sodium-chloride-18tb-hdd-10-nm,13728.htmlYou could always just throw some nuclear waste into the ground, /bamHelium
"Helium ... is the second most abundant element in the observable universe, being present at about 24% of the total elemental mass..." -Wikipedia
I'd say both counts are true.I've used WD almost exclusively for the last 20years, I've never had a problem with any of my drives, so you having 3 crap out, seems like really bad luck, or I've had amazing luck.
Once scientists perfect nuclear fusion, we will have an infinite amount of energy and helium. Hydrogen is incredibly easy to extract from H2O. Now if only there were nuclear chemists out there trying to create a fusion power plant that generates helium...