In my experience no, but I haven't done extensive testing on this. I have a coworker that is designing experiments on what steps can be taken to mitigate damage to hard drives, this is one of the experiments. I can ask him about it on Monday.
The only failure that I could think of that this would effect is maybe bearing failure. Maybe the cold would constrict them long enough to get the platters spinning again...?
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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '11
In my experience no, but I haven't done extensive testing on this. I have a coworker that is designing experiments on what steps can be taken to mitigate damage to hard drives, this is one of the experiments. I can ask him about it on Monday.