@volemo @spacehobo @krutonium @nina_kali_nina point taken!

Air and espechally nitrogen being a good insulator and the effects of both laminar and turbulent flow forces acting on the heads due to the spacial density and the heat concentration make it necessary to use some sort of coolant/thermal conductor with negligible resistance. Most liquid coolants would have way too much force so unless extremely slow access and transfer speeds (i.e. a 600rpm instead of 5400rpm drive) were to be accepted.

• Personally I think that #SMR & #Helium drives are a bad direction given the unpreticably worsening performance and "write amplification" with (SMR) and the wasteful use of a valuable element needed for nore important tasks (Helium).

Instead, the use and development of #Flash and #NVRAM, espechally #FeRAM and #NvSRAM should be prioritized.

• Either way we csn,all agree that both #HDD|s and #Tape have reached their peaks and increasing capacity and/or speed requires exponentailly more expense at marginal gains!