On Erebus, they use pressurized drive canisters for
external SCSI drives.
At Pole, they don't do anything special. Drives die all the time. To
add insult to injury, massively dry air holds a lot less heat than the
air you and I are breathing right now - computers and hard disks frequently
die from overheating at the South Pole - the air is thinner and drier
and can't conduct as much heat away from CPUs and drives.
The flame throwers to incinerate the Things can't help,
either. :-)
I always thought it would be fun to visit Antartica and maybe
work there for a year. Now that I'm married I don't think I'd
be able to go there.
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Eric Dittman
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