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Old style? What other gases are used?

• dghughes 3y ago
  Regular air I'd say 78%N 21%O + 1% other.
• Brian_K_White 3y ago
  They are saying that the spinning disks with helium are old, which is silly. Flash is fast and convenient but a terrible thing to rely on for data storage.
  • swores 3y ago
    It's a very common and I think reasonable way to refer to them - for most consumers there are two types of disk to care about, "old = spinning" and "new = flash". Old doesn't mean "and no longer has any use", just that it's the older of the two main options.
    • Brian_K_White 3y ago
      It is common, and silly. Also the terms are not neutral and there is no reason to apply those terms in this case other than to indicate the imagined relative worth. IE, helium is not used in old disks, it is used in spinning disks.