With drive capacity nearing the Terabyte mark, track density increases along with the gap between read / write heads and platters. Therefore are Hermetically sealed drives the the way forward for Manufacturers?
See link below to read more
http://www.touchbriefings.com/pdf/22/data031_t_MOUNTOP.PDF
(Link Now broken, Provided for reference)
I hope these drives don’t become too common. It would be another way to hinder our data recovery!