How long should a "frozen" freshly shipped HDD rest before first use?

[jumpload]

Condensation is going to be your worst enemy with this and to be safe I'd personally leave it overnight. then again i tend to aire on the side of caution.

+1

took the words out of my mouth.

[Perineum]

HDs contain dessicant inside them for this reason.

I'm not talking about heating the HD, I'm talking about letting it sit at room temperature until it's close.

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by Perineum

HDs contain dessicant inside them for this reason.

I'm not talking about heating the HD, I'm talking about letting it sit at room temperature until it's close.

Since when? I have opened my share of hdds and never seen that.

[Perineum]

We destroyed drives at work for confidentiality purposes.

The dessicant is usually in a little packet....

Device To Regenerate A Desiccant In A Hard Disk Drive

HDD from inside: Main parts

[Valamyr]

Originally Posted by Perineum

We destroyed drives at work for confidentiality purposes.

The dessicant is usually in a little packet....

Device To Regenerate A Desiccant In A Hard Disk Drive

HDD from inside: Main parts

Color me impressed :) Not many people quote patents, I've kind of grew up in a generation where quoting wikipedia is generally accepted as the ultimate proof you mean business. :p

Also, I didnt know about the dessiccant. Will keep it in mind

[Perineum]

Well I could be wrong, but they certainly did look like it...

Maybe only older drives had them? We obviously only destroyed the older drives at work...

[jumpload]

I popped open a old Quantum lightning 750meg just for fun ;)
Got piles of this stuff.

No dessicant in thier, no mater lol think i have a working 40meg hdd around here somewhere.

off topic: man just had a flash back of installing win95 off of floppy's. Man what a pain, then you get to disk 27 and its messed up.
o joy

[Valamyr]

Well I woke very early in the night and ended up deciding it was 'good enough' around 3AM after about 15 hours of room temp. I had issues getting the Windows install started for about 2 more hours because of a silly BIOS setting I ought to have thought of after two minutes (which goes to show sleeping for 4 hours and calling it a night is a bad strategy). Anyhow, the drive had plenty of time to warm up further during all the time I spent goofing around before I actually started putting something on it at the break of dawn.

Ive just finished putting in all the software I consider necessary for a nice clean install and ghosted the whole thing. HD Tune gives me 115MB/sec average and 13ms seeks and no bad sectors, which I think is probably alright for a 7200.12 Sata3 drive, although Im not used to benching disks. One thing is certain, its alot better than the dying disk I replaced :D With the SSD smartcache, it feels super brisk.

Now, I can resume my conquest of Skyrim in peace. Hope nothing breaks for awhile :p

[BrainEater]

I havn't looked up the "Operating Temperature" specs on new HDD's in a while.

I believe the low temp spec is -5 C.Condensation is always a concern.

Whatever Harddrive you have , If you look up the specs online it will tell you.

[NyteOwl]

Room temp is a good rule of thumb. The drive specs are a more accurate indication.

I'm quite certain there is a good deal of "wiggle" room as HDD's get replace frequently in environments most hobbiests wouldn't dream of placing their machines - from Dessert sand and dry heat to jungle humidity to arctic type cold.