Shyrell,
You'll want to look at the label on your hard drive or in the manual. Either will specify the range of temperatures for your hard drive while it's operating. You might need to contact the manufacturer to make certain that the cold will not damage the drive when it's off. It probably will not but you'll need to confirm that. If it's OK in cold, you will still need to warm the room before the drive will properly operate.
Computers that are required for very cold environments are usually "ruggedized" and are specially built to withstand cold and other severe environmental conditions.
Steve
At 10:23 AM 2/18/2005, you wrote:
I have a new question, and it is valid. How cold is too cold for a computer's hard drive?
My new studio is heated (for now) with a portable kerosene heater lighted only when the room is in use. Ideally, I would like to keep my computer in the same room. But the temp. could sometimes get below freezing.
So, is there a point where the room could get too cold for the hard drive?
