Re: Machines Left in the Cold....

From: Geoff (geoff_at_nospam.demon.co.uk)
Date: 12/20/04 

Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:16:40 +0000 (UTC)

Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote in
news:Pine.SOL.4.58.0412150840260.10972@zaphod:

> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Steve wrote:
>
>> [...]
>
> It is good practise to let anything electrical get to room temperature
> before switching it on.

To add to that bit of good advice, I have known HDD's to fail because the
temperature dropped below 0degC - something like water based lubricants on
the disk spindle freezing and damaging the bearings.

Fun thing was that this happened to the guy who was responsible for
shutting the heating off over an extended Xmas holiday. Guess who had no
back-up :-)

Geoff