If humdity is what kills hard drives then wouldn't also sealing the drive's PCB with Helium help?

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Lifer
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If humdity is what kills hard drives.....

https://www.zdnet.com/article/heat-doesnt-kill-hard-drives-heres-what-does/

High relative humidity causes disk failures largely due to controller/adapter malfunction.

Disk controller/connectivity failures are greatest during high relative humidity.

High temperatures are not harmless, but are much less significant than other factors.

..... then wouldn't also sealing the drive's PCB (with the disk controller) with Helium help?

This for data centers that would like to use free air cooling, but have too much humidity.
 

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Lifer
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If sealing the drive PCB drive does help......I also wonder how a consumer 2.5" HDD (with low RPM platters and multi-actuator) would stack up to a SATA SSD in high heat/humidity consditions?

P.S. Low RPM Helium Multi-actuator 2.5" HDD (with three actuators) should have a much better performance per watt in Sequential Read than a SATA SSD.