How many electric eels do I need to produce the 500W required for my rig?

Not all hdds have that hole. Some use helium on the inside.

You can get drives that are filled with helium and vacuum sealed, they're just expensive.

it would be extremely painful

>expensive
They are like 150 dollars for a 10 GB

>$15 000 per TB
yeah not expensive at all

> $150
> for 10 gb of storage
>not expensive
>yet I can buy a 250gb ssd for $20 on sale.
I really hope you're baiting.

You can get a 10TB helium drive for $300.

>tfw forget to tie down helium drive and it floats away

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you're a big databus

I think you mean TB

for you

one of these days i'll try mineral oil.
...been saying that since 2004.

for GNU

Can you farm electricity from eels?

Probably but I imagine the food required to keep them alive will cost more than the electricity they produce

This. Lifeforms are just horribly inefficient generators and batteries. It's why things like The Matrix are so laughable.
>inb5^H3 fossil fuels
It's taken us barely two centuries to strip-mine this planet of all the fossil fuels that took half a billion years to collect up

Don't fall for the helium drive meme. Or at least if you do, don't store music or movies on it. The helium will interact with them and make everything sound like Mickey Mouse.

This is possible, but the problem is that more often than not, the eels will swim in different directions from each other and cancel out each others' generated power. It takes enormous effort to train them to all swim in the same direction, and it only takes one miscreant eel to ruin the efficiency of your electricity farm.

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That hole is a pressure equalizer hole. It has a diaphragm inside that flexes depending on heat expansion of the air inside, but doesn't transfer anything in or out of the drive, you absolute brainlet.

Then how come some of them have a little filter instead of a diaphragm?

>muh hermetically sealed hdd
No, it's not hermetically sealed. It has a little fucking filter to stop most particles entering, and apart from that it relies on the airflow from the spinning platters to blow anything that is inside away and hopefully get it caught in a filter soon.

Considering the head clearance of a typically hard drive is an insignificant fraction of the size of a particle of dust or smoke, I'm calling bullshit on that one. Drives have a diaphragm and a silica packet to absorb moisture from the assembly room air, that's it.

kek

He's talking about these
amazon.com.au/HGST-Ultrastar-HUH728080ALE600-0F23267-Platform/dp/B018G0TBK0/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=HGST 8TB&qid=1559958155&s=gateway&sr=8-4

Not sure why it's so expensive though, I got one a year ago for $399 USD

>fan
legitimate question is this effective for oil circulation? are there purpose made fans for this or do regular ones work?

...or you know just get an SSD

>Electric eels are also capable of controlling their prey's nervous systems with their electrical abilities; by controlling their victim's nervous system and muscles via electrical pulses, they can keep prey from escaping or force it to move so they can locate its position.
the fuck nature

you're mother is a pressure equalizer hole.

I upboat dis

is this called watercooled?

maybe the price of helium went up

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