by Kathi Leiden | Feb 21, 2018 | Helium, Helium Uses
What’s helium storage? Simply put, it’s a kind of hard drive for your computer that uses helium. First it was experimental, now it’s taking off. A short history of helium storage technology A few short years ago, Hitachi Global Storage...
by Kathi Leiden | Sep 23, 2015 | Helium, Helium Uses
Netflix processes over a billion streaming hours per month to 48 million viewers. To keep those videos playing, they’ve put their trust in helium HDDs. To be able to instantly watch a movie or television show out of thin air, whenever we feel like it, and on any...
by Kathi Leiden | Sep 9, 2015 | Helium, Helium Science, Helium Uses
Astronomers are using helium-filled hard drives to capture the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole – a feat that proved impossible with regular drives. Mapping an image of a black hole At the top of Sierra Negra in Mexico, a mere 15,000 feet above sea level,...
by Kathi Leiden | May 27, 2015 | Helium, Helium Science, Helium Uses
Inside the hard disk drive (HDD) in your computer is what resembles a short stack of small DVDs. Called platters, these oscillating, magnetic disks are where data is recorded and transferred, and are the reason why you can turn off your computer without losing your...
