Hard Drive Question

[Signals]

Can high heat and humidity destroy, damage or otherwise render data irretrievable from a computer hard drive.

I have a friend who has a computer in storage and I encouraged him not to leave it there throughout the Texas summer.

What ye say?

 

[RastaRocket]

It is a terrible idea to leave any computer stored in the heat, especially Texas...

Most manufacturers will provide some kind of warning, like a storage temperature range for your computer. Too cold or too hot can be bad. I wouldn't even leave my laptop inside a car for long in the Texas summer.

 

[tupperware]

Don't do it.

 

[Signals]

Thanks for the replies guys. We'll see if he takes this advise to heart.

 

[Dallas]

Throw it in a bag of warmed uncooked rice.



Just kidding....thought it was funny.

 

[tupperware]

Thanks for the replies guys. We'll see if he takes this advise to heart.

He better, or he'll be taking his Hard Drive to data recovery specialists.

 

[Kangaroo]

He better, or he'll be taking his Hard Drive to data recovery specialists.

You should see what it cost when you raid 5 array totally fail (not backed up that is it's own story) and they have to rebuild and pull 100's of gb of database data.

Think we spent around 20k or so

 

[YosemiteSam]

I bought a toaster over, just so I could test all my company hard drive data to see how it would react to spending an hour at 400F.

 

[tupperware]

You should see what it cost when you raid 5 array totally fail (not backed up that is it's own story) and they have to rebuild and pull 100's of gb of database data.

Think we spent around 20k or so

Sounds about right. Something similar happened to dslreports.