From experience, I would say so. In various arrays I&#x27;ve worked with, the Seagates always seem to be the first to fail SMART. Also they are really noisy when compared to a WD or Hitachi (not really an issue in a Datacentre, but I&#x27;m long in the tooth enough to automatically associate &#x27;noisy&#x27; with &#x27;failing drive&#x27;).<p>WD have been using helium for a while on their 8TB drives:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wdc.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;8tb&#x2F;Default.aspx" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.wdc.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;8tb&#x2F;Default.aspx</a><p>And they have a specific model for Datacentres:
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