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As cptskippy said, the helium is at atmospheric pressure, so a leak would not fail catastrophically. Helium would more or less slowly diffuse. If the leak is sm
by himinlomax 6y ago
As cptskippy said, the helium is at atmospheric pressure, so a leak would not fail catastrophically. Helium would more or less slowly diffuse. If the leak is small enough, helium could get out but larger molecules would have a harder time. Thus the pressure inside the enclosure would get slightly lower than atmosphere and leaking would slow down.
The iPhone MEMS failed when a rather large amount of pressurized, cryogenic helium was leaked during an MRI machine servicing. The quantity of unpressurized helium in a tiny HDD enclosure is minuscule, and thus the slow diffusion is unlikely to register above background levels, even at very close range.