Operating computers in the cold

Dedeer wrote:

And where i live Temperatures are as low as -10C in Winter.

Same here, mostly, can go down to -27 every 2-4 years and -37 twice in my lifetime ( i am old)
Last night one of my 3D printers panicked as it got under 0 in the shop, the shops are not isolated at all and have small open windows, no issue with cold ever, but lots of issue with moisture.

Hard drives dont like cold.
And if you running them out on the floor make sure you have a backup of the HD cause one day you gonna turn it on and it’s gonna say no HD found.

Jdolecki wrote:

Hard drives dont like cold.

True, but i would venture a guess that up to -5C should still be OK on older drives and 0C on new-ish drives. Never tested, though as SSD are not so sensitive and i do not have HDD to test with.
I think 5 to 45C is their normal working environment temperature, but fast ones do get hot while working.

I had two hard drive stop working in my un heated

Now my mill has an intel nuc with solid state HD.

Indeed Dedeer, Beckhoff has recently released a series of PCs specifically for real-time Linux: www.beckhoff.com/en-us/company/press/twi...linux-r-2024-04.html