No helium, but data still accessible

[fzabkar]

The SMART report is showing that all the helium has leaked out of a WD121KRYZ-01WORB0, but there are no data errors, and data is still accessible at 30MB/s.

https://community.wd.com/t/wwd-12tb-golds-tranfer-rate-dropped-suddenly/470897

[Arch Stanton]

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/co ... ium_level/

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

Frank And joep ,
Does that mean we can do helium drives without adding helium to it and it will survive recovery but at lower speed ,I have heard they do not survive or its model specific .

[pcimage]

Interesting...

[Murtazah]

With this info I will dare to open one good drive and check if it still reads after opening it. that will be proof of it.

hopefully will update in a day or 2.